Information for Vista Institute for AI Policy

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Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2023 1 Peter Salib
2024 7 Aishwarya Saxena Coby Joseph, Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez, Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez Jam Kraprayoon, Peter Salib, Renan Araujo
2025 12 Aishwarya Saxena, Janelle Radcliffe, Rebeccah Hart Coby Joseph, Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez, Maimuna Zaheer Gabriel Weil, Jam Kraprayoon, Kevin Frazier, Peter Salib, Renan Araujo, Yonathan Arbel

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2024-01-01 3 Aishwarya Saxena, Coby Joseph, Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez
2025-01-01 3 Aishwarya Saxena, Coby Joseph, Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
2023-10-01 1 1 0 Peter Salib
2024-01-01 5 4 0 Aishwarya Saxena, Coby Joseph, Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez, Jam Kraprayoon
2024-12-01 4 0 -1 Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez
2024-12-02 6 2 0 Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez, Renan Araujo
2025-03-01 7 1 0 Janelle Radcliffe
2025-06-01 12 5 0 Gabriel Weil, Kevin Frazier, Maimuna Zaheer, Rebeccah Hart, Yonathan Arbel

List of people (13 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Coby Joseph Co-Founder and Director of Policy 2024-01-01 full-time [1], [2], [3]
Aishwarya Saxena Co-Founder and Director of Legal Research 2024-01-01 full-time [1], [4], [3]
Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez Co-Founder and Director of Program Strategy 2024-12-02 [1], [5], [3]
Kevin Frazier Advisor 2025-06-01 advisor [1], [3]
Gabriel Weil Advisor 2025-06-01 advisor [1], [3]
Yonathan Arbel Advisor 2025-06-01 advisor [1], [3]
Peter Salib Advisor 2023-10-01 advisor [1], [6], [3]
Renan Araujo Advisor 2024-12-02 advisor [1], [3]
Jam Kraprayoon Advisor 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [7], [3]
Janelle Radcliffe National Security & AI Researcher 2025-03-01 [8]
Maimuna Zaheer AI Agents and the Law Module 1+2 2025-06-01 [9]
Rebeccah Hart AI Policy Research Fellow 2025-06-01 [10]
Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez Co-founder / Head of Operations 2024-01-01 2024-12-01 [5]

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