Verity Harding

Verity Harding is a British executive specialising in artificial intelligence policy and technology governance. She is a published author of AI Needs You, Princeton University Press at the Bennett Institute of Public Policy, University of Cambridge. Harding is also Founder of Formation Advisory Ltd, a bespoke AI consultancy. She was named Time100's most influential people in AI 2023. Nick Clegg.

Education and early career Harding studied history at Pembroke College, Oxford. In 2007, she was a Michael von Clemm Fellow at Harvard University.

In 2022, she became an affiliated researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge as Director of the AI and Geopolitics Project (AIxGEO).

Career Harding served as Special Adviser to former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg until 2013, where she was responsible for home affairs and justice. She was part of the fight for same-sex marriage movement in the UK.

In 2013, Harding was appointed Head of Security Policy at Google. In 2018, Harding was appointed Co-Chair of the Partnership on AI Fair, Transparent, and Accountable AI working group alongside Ed Felton, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for The White House. She also served on the OECD Artificial Intelligence expert group.

In 2022, Harding founded Formation Advisory Ltd, a bespoke AI consultancy. In 2024, Harding published AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own

From 2018-2023, Harding served on the Board of Friends of the Royal Academy of Arts. She is a member of the UK's Government's Cabinet Office Digital Advisory Board,