Yanni previously co-founded and led AI Safety Australia & New Zealand, where he ran TARA v1, the AI Safety Careers Conference, launched Australia's first AI safety co-working space, and built monthly meetups across six cities.

 

Before AI safety, Yanni spent a decade in marketing and strategy at LinkedIn, News Corp, Spark Wave, and various agencies.

 

He has also served on advisory boards for Giving What We Can, RESULTS International, and The Deli Women & Children's Centre.

Zac is a Master of AI student at UNSW with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Physics (First Class Honours) from the University of Melbourne. He completed TARA v1, where his final project focused on causal interventions on a chess model using linear probes, and was accepted into SPAR in 2025.

 

Zac was President and Education Director of EA University of Melbourne from 2022-2024, helping organise EAGx Australia 2023. He has worked at Elevate Education since 2021, recently helping develop their AI seminars.

Ahmed brings experience in research engineering, governance and field-building. 

 

His projects have explored AI Safety Gridworlds (UCT), aspiration-based agent designs (SPAR), adversarial robustness for cyber defence (UQ), weird generalisation (ARENA) and agent evals (EquiStamp). He has also supported 40+ AI Safety capstone projects (CAIS, BlueDot, TARA) and co-directed the Queensland AI Safety Initiative.

Outside AI Safety, he has worked on unconditional cash transfers, fish welfare, event ops, and charity evaluation​.

Mel brings over a decade of experience in education, program design and community building across Australia, Spain, and internationally.

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She previously co-founded and led Effective Altruism Barcelona, growing it into the most active EA hub in Spain, and supported the incubation of AI Safety Barcelona and AI Safety Spain.

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Outside of her impact work, Mel is a songwriter and videomaker who has independently released two studio albums.

Nelson is the Technical Lead at Arcadia Impact.

 

Previously he co-organised the TARA pilot program in 2025, worked as a Technical Project Manager for the UK AISI Bounty programme managing three teams building evaluations on strategic deception, synthetic environment detection and propensity to sandbag.

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Nelson completed the LASR Labs 2025 Summer Cohort, focused on control evaluation research that investigated the untrusted monitoring protocol.

Ryan is Co-Executive Director of MATS, a Co-Founder and Board Member of the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA), a Manifund Regrantor, and advisor to AI Safety ANZ, Catalyze Impact, and Pivotal Research.

 

Previously, he completed a PhD in Physics at the University of Queensland (UQ) and conducted independent research in AI alignment for the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative.

Dan is a visiting researcher at Meridian Cambridge, studying sleeper agents and mechanistic interpretability.

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He has designed and led corporate courses in data science and machine learning, earning recognition as an inaugural Distinguished Faculty member at General Assembly. Dan also served as TARA's first teaching assistant.

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Earlier, he co-founded a social networking startup after pursuing a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech.