Milan Gandhi is a Public Policy Affiliate of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, a Public Policy 1+1 candidate at the Oxford Blavatnik School of Government, and a Fellow (AI Policy) at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

Milan has a background in technology and international law, CBRN and health security policy, and international governance. His research focuses on questions at the intersection of democracy, the state, and emerging technologies. Recent topics include exploring the political impacts of AI systems; proposing mitigations to challenges at the intersection of AI and mis/disinformation; optimal institutional arrangements for frontier AI auditing regimes; and AI industrial and digital sovereignty policies.

Prior to joining Oxford, Milan was a Senior Associate at the Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC Ltd) in Australia, where he supported bleeding-edge innovation programmes and assisted government defence and security organisations on policy planning and preparedness for CBRN threats. Before this, he worked for McCullough Robertson in Brisbane and Sydney as a litigation lawyer for clients in the construction and technology sectors.

Milan is completing the MSc in Public Policy Research and has a Master of Public Policy (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford. He holds both the Lee Liberman General Sir John Monash Scholarship and a Blavatnik School of Government Scholarship. Milan also has a Bachelor of Laws (First Class) from the University of Queensland and is a former Australian Law Student of the Year.