Lisa Soder
Tagline:Hi! I am Lisa and I work on European AI policy and technical AI Governance!
About Me
I'm the Acting Head of AI Governance at interface, a pan-European tech policy think tank, and am currently visiting Stanford's Intelligent Systems Laboratory. My work focuses on building the information infrastructure for AI accountability through better standards, documentation, and audits.
Previously, I held research fellowships at the RAND Corporation and Centre for the Governance of AI, co-organized the first workshop on Technical AI Governance, worked as a Strategy Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, and led a global health NGO in Ethiopia. I hold a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics, where I studied comparative transatlantic approaches to technology regulation and competition law.
Outside of work, you can often find me in the backcountry either ski touring, hiking, or cycling! Sometimes also meditating or surfing!
Contact: You can reach me at lisasoderhoehne [at] gmail.com
Publications
Toward Best Practices for AI Evaluation and Governance: A Proposal for a European Union General-Purpose AI Model Evaluation Standards Task Force
ReportDate:2025Authors:Patricia PaskovLisa SoderEverett SmithSafety Frameworks and Standards: A comparative analysis to advance risk management of frontier AI
ReportDate:2025Authors:Marta Ziosiet. al.Position: Technical Research and Talent is Needed for Effective AI Governance
Conference PaperPublisher:Forty-first International Conference on Machine LearningDate:2025Authors:Anka Reuel*Lisa Soder*Benjamin BucknallTrond Arne UndheimAn Autonomy-Based Classification: AI Agents, Liability and Learnings from Automated Vehicles Act
Conference PaperPublisher:Workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling ResearchDate:2024Authors:Lisa SoderJulia SmakmanConnor DunlopWeiwei PanSiddharth SwaroopNoam KoltOpen Problems in Technical AI Governance
ReportDate:2024Authors:Anka ReuelBen BucknallStephen CasperTim FistLisa SoderOnni AarneLewis HammondLujain IbrahimAlan ChanPeter WillsMarkus AnderljungBen GarfinkelLennart HeimAndrew TraskGabriel MukobiRylan SchaefferMauricio BakerSara HookerIrene SolaimanAlexandra Sasha LuccioniNitarshan RajkumarNicolas MoësJeffrey LadishNeel GuhaJessica NewmanYoshua BengioTobin SouthAlex PentlandSanmi KoyejoMykel J KochenderferRobert TragerMore than Marketing? On the Information Value of AI Benchmarks for Practitioners
Journal ArticlePublisher:https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708359.3712152Date:2024Authors:Amelia HardyAnka ReuelKiana Jafari MeimandiLisa SoderAllie GriffithDylan M AsmarSanmi KoyejoMichael S BernsteinMykel J KochenderferTowards Publicly Accountable Frontier LLMs: Building an external scrutiny ecosystem under the ASPIRE framework
Journal ArticlePublisher:arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.14711Date:2023Authors:Markus AnderljungEverett Thornton SmithJoe O'BrienLisa SoderBenjamin BucknallEmma BluemkeJonas SchuettRobert TragerLacey StrahmRumman Chowdhury
Talks
AI Agents & Liability
Date: Sep 2025
Event name: EU Law and AI Forum 2025 & Google DeepMind Policy Study Group .Location: Cambridge & London .
Governing Frontier AI: Status Check, Technical Hurdles & Next Frontiers
Date: Apr 2025
Event name: Guest Lecture .Location: University of Vienna .
Voluntary AI Commitments: Paris AI Action Summit
Date: Feb 2025
Location: Paris .
Description:I joined a panel at the AI Action Summit to discuss progress on frameworks like the Frontier AI Safety Commitments (FAISC) and the Hiroshima AI Process (HAIP)—examining how these efforts relate to each other, what has been achieved so far, and the challenges of turning early governance steps into genuine accountability.
Other panelists included Takuo Imagawa (Vice-Minister, Ministry of Interior and Communications, Japan), Sara Hooker (VP of Research, Cohere AI), John McDermid (Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of York), Peter Sarlin (CEO, AMD Silo AI). The disucssion was moderated by Audrey Plonk (Deputy Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD) moderated the discussion.
Sino-German Track 2 Dialogue
Date: Dec 2024
Location: Beijing & Shanghai .
Description:I joined a Sino-German Track 2 dialogue in Beijing and Shanghai. The agenda included topics such as economic security, international AI governance, and the regulation of emerging technologies.
The Role of Technical Research in Advancing AI Governance
Date: Jul 2024
Event name: Vienna .Location: International Conference on Machine Learning 2024 .
In the Media
AI Action Summit: Stresstest für globale KI-Regeln
Issue date: Feb 2025,
Issued by: Tagesspiegel .
AI Action summit in Paris: A stress test for global AI governance
Issue date: Feb 2025,
Issued by: Context (Thomson Reuters Foundation) .
AI: US under Trump and Europe choose diverging paths
Issue date: Jan 2025,
Issued by: Deutsche Welle (Janosch Delcker) .