Matthew Clifford is the co-founder and Chair of Entrepreneur First (EF), the world’s leading talent investor, and Chair of the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), a new £800m agency for funding breakthrough R&D, loosely based on DARPA. In 2023, he led the preparations and negotiations for the AI... Read more
Matthew Clifford is the co-founder and Chair of Entrepreneur First (EF), the world’s leading talent investor, and Chair of the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), a new £800m agency for funding breakthrough R&D, loosely based on DARPA.
In 2023, he led the preparations and negotiations for the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park as the UK Prime Minister’s Representative (on sabbatical from EF). Previously, he led the design work for the UK Frontier AI Taskforce (now the UK AI Safety Institute, where he serves as Vice Chair of the Advisory Board).
In 2024, he was asked by the new UK Government to create an “AI Action Plan” for the UK, focusing on the AI opportunities for the country.
He serves on the boards of Code First Girls, which he co-founded (also with Alice), the Kennedy Memorial Trust, and Accurx, one of the UK’s leading healthcare software companies.
Matthew was awarded an MBE for services to business in 2016 and a CBE for services to AI in 2024, and he was named to the Time AI100 list of most influential people in AI.