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14 Facts About Gillian Hadfield

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Gillian Kereldena Hadfield was born on July 14,1961 and is a Canadian professor of law and of strategic management who is the inaugural Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

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Gillian Hadfield is director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.

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At USC, Hadfield directed the Southern California Innovation Project and the USC Center in Law, Economics, and Organization.

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Gillian Hadfield is a former member of the board of directors for the American Law and Economics Association and the International Society for New Institutional Economics.

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From 2018 to 2023, Gillian Hadfield served as Senior Policy Adviser to the artificial intelligence company OpenAI.

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Gillian Hadfield received her BA with honours in economics from Queen's University in 1983.

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Gillian Hadfield earned a JD with distinction from Stanford Law School in 1988 and a PhD in economics from Stanford University in 1990.

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Gillian Hadfield joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley School of Law as an assistant law professor in 1990.

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From 1994 to 1999, Gillian Hadfield was an associate law professor at the University of Toronto Law School, and then a professor of law from 1999 to 2001.

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Gillian Hadfield served as a professor with NYU School of Law's Global Law Faculty from 1999 to 2001.

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In 2010, Hadfield was the Sidley Austin Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, and in 2008, was the Justin W D'Atri Visiting Professor of Law, Business, and Society at Columbia Law School.

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In 2018, Gillian Hadfield rejoined the University of Toronto and in 2019 was appointed the Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society, as well as the director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.

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Gillian Hadfield served as Senior Policy Adviser to OpenAI from 2018 to 2023.

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Gillian Hadfield's work is widely published in law journals, including the Stanford Law Review, and in peer-reviewed journals, including the Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.