Tobias Peyerl, Ph.D.

Tobias Peyerl leads the Strategic Intelligence and Analysis team at OpenAI, safeguarding advanced AI systems from misuse and emerging threats. Since joining in 2024, he has driven risk assessments across global compute infrastructure, geopolitical environments, and national security, while scaling safety capabilities with external partners. His team enables the safe adoption of AI by businesses and governments through tailored intelligence, proactive monitoring, and open-access safety tools and advances a core mission to strengthen a global community of democratic states so AI benefits all of humanity and frontier risks are addressed before they materialize.

Previously, Tobias led Intelligence Analysis and Trust Risk Governance at Google, directing cross-functional teams to manage platform-wide safety risks. He also served as a political affairs officer at the United Nations, contributing to the UN’s Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism.

Tobias has guest lectured at UC Berkeley, USC, UCLA, and Columbia University. He holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and studied at Harvard Law School, Sciences Po Paris, NYU, and Humboldt University in Berlin.