Ulysse Richard

Ulysse Richard is a policy practitioner and researcher tackling frontier AI’s challenges to international security. He is a consultant on military AI governance at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, a policy research fellow supporting P5 Track II dialogues on AI-nuclear risk at the expert-convening policy nonprofit INHR, and a research associate on institutional design with the nonprofit Arcadia Impact’s AI Governance Taskforce and is part of the Institute for Science and Technology’s inaugural Andrew Carnegie AI–Nuclear Policy Accelerator. Previously, he was a fellow at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, conducted cyberthreat intelligence at the CyberPeace Institute, and researched nuclear cyberdefense at the University of California, Berkeley. A member of the UN-Japan Youth Leader Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, he now serves as a mentor to the program. He holds a dual master’s degree in International Security and International Relations from Sciences Po and Peking University, where his thesis applied game-theoretic analysis to US-China escalation dynamics over dual-use AI innovation. His interests include military AI governance, AI-nuclear risk, US-China technology competition, and cybersecurity.