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Sella Nevo
Director, Meselson Center, Senior Information Scientist, RAND
Sella Nevo, the Director of the RAND Corporation's Meselson Center, is dedicated to reducing risks from biological threats and emerging technologies. He is the lead author of an upcoming RAND report on securing frontier AI model weights from theft. He previously led the Karmel group at Google Research, which included the Google Flood Forecasting Initiative, providing flood forecasts and warnings globally alongside several other humanitarian and environmental efforts. He is a Venture Partner at Firstime, a venture capital firm that invests in climate startups. He also sits on the advisory board of ALLFED - the Alliance to Feed the Earth. He has previously been featured on Fortune's Change The World list and TheMarker's 40 Under 40, published in Nature, and has been an invited speaker at the United Nations, the World Bank, Harvard, Oxford, Yale, NeurIPS, and ICML, among other venues.