Dorothy Chou leads the Public Engagement Lab at Google DeepMind, where she helps shape how society envisions and prepares for AI-enabled futures. A long-time advocate for transparency and equity in tech, she created the industry’s first Transparency Report at Google, now a standard used by nearly 90 companies to show how laws and company policies affect free expression and privacy online.

Before joining DeepMind, Dorothy led policy work at Uber on consumer protection, safety, and self-driving technology. There, she launched a campaign with civil rights leaders focused on criminal justice reform, which helped over 7,000 people with low-level offenses find employment as drivers. She also held leadership roles in corporate communications at Dropbox and spent seven years in public policy and communications at Google.

Beyond her work in tech, Dorothy is deeply involved in the venture ecosystem. She has backed more than 40 early-stage companies as an angel investor and is an LP in seven VC funds across Europe and the US. She chairs UCLPartners, a leading health innovation partnership that connects world-class academic research with the NHS to accelerate the adoption of new treatments and improve patient outcomes. She also serves on the board of digital arts nonprofit Rhizome and was a founding board member of Simply Secure (now Superbloom), a nonprofit dedicated to improving usability in open-source security tools.

Dorothy holds a B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, an MSt in Practical Ethics from Oxford University, and is a former Adjunct Fellow at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute. She regularly volunteers on political campaigns and is passionate about supporting founders who are expanding access and opportunity in overlooked markets.

Dorothy joined the HRDAG Advisory Board in April, 2026.