Susan Liautaud, Founder
Dr. Susan Liautaud is Founder and Managing Director of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited (SLAL), a boutique firm advising on complex ethics matters for leaders in the corporate, non-profit and governmental sectors internationally. Susan is the author of The Power of Ethics and of The Little Book of Big Ethical Questions. She teaches cutting edge ethics courses at Stanford University. She serves as Chair of Council (trustees) of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), as Vice Chair of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and as Chair of the Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs Advisory Council. Susan serves to the Stanford HAI (Stanford Institute for Human- Centered Artificial Intelligence) and to SAP’s AI Ethics Advisory Panel. She also serves on a number of other boards and advisory boards, including: Benevolent AI; Yale Divinity School Advisory Council; the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; the French Ambassador’s Foreign Trade Advisory Council in the UK; the American Hospital of Paris Board of Governors and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières US Advisory Board (former Chair). She previously served on the UK Cabinet Office’s Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACoBA), the Pasteur Institute board, and to the UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation board. Susan is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. She also founded a non-profit, independent, cross-sector laboratory and collaborative platform for innovative ethics called The Ethics Incubator. Susan holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science; a Juris Doctor from Columbia University Law School; a M.A. in Chinese Studies from University of London School of Oriental and African Studies; a M.A. and two B.A.s from Stanford University.
Our Team
Anna Barberà i Aresté joined Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited in 2013 and is responsible of Research and Communications. Prior to this position, she worked on financial public relations at Ogilvy Paris. From 2009 to 2011, she joined the Conseil de Coopération Economique (CCE) as Head of Programs. She has also been in charge of donors at a French-American foundation in New York and worked for the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich. Anna achieved a MSc in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a MSc in Politics Research at Sciences po Paris (IEP). She also obtained a graduate diploma in Political Science and also in Philosophy at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She speaks fluent Spanish/Catalan, French and English and intermediate Italian.