Biography
Sarah Shirazyan is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer at Stanford Law School. Her research and teaching focus on AI governance, technology policy, and free speech.
Previously, Shirazyan was the director of AI product policy at Meta, where she oversaw the development of global policies for the company’s AI products. Before her work in the technology sector, she held several positions within international organizations. She served as a human rights lawyer for the European Court of Human Rights and a data protection consultant for the Council of Europe. Her experience also includes working on nuclear security issues at the United Nations and investigating international drug cartel cases at INTERPOL.
From 2017–20, Shirazyan founded and led the INTERPOL-Stanford Policy Lab, advising INTERPOL on governance and tech-industry partnerships to combat transnational crime. She also served as a nuclear security postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her scholarship and op-eds have been published in Lawfare, Just Security, the Journal of Online Trust and Safety, and the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.
Shirazyan holds a Doctor of Juridical Sciences from Stanford Law School, where she received the Gerald J. Lieberman Award for outstanding research and teaching.
