Patricia Paskov (Trish)

Patricia Paskov is the Director of Standards at AVERI, Adjunct Researcher at RAND, and Research Affiliate at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. Her research on frontier AI evaluations and governance has appeared in top machine learning venues including ICML, Science, and FAccT and policy venues including Carnegie, RAND, and The World Bank and has been covered by media outlets including Al Jazeera, the Financial Times, Fortune, MIT Technology Review China, and TIME. She led the Resilience section of the 2026 International AI Safety Report, co-founded NYC AI Governance & Safety, and serves as Faculty at the International Programme on AI Evaluation. As of Fall 2026, she is a DPhil candidate in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. Previously she built machine learning models at Condé Nast and designed large-scale randomized controlled trials with the World Bank and Innovations for Poverty Action. She completed degrees in economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Barcelona School of Economics, and the European University Institute.