Henry de Zoete is a Senior Advisor and Visiting Fellow to the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative at the University of Oxford. Until July 2024 he was the UK Prime Minister's advisor on AI. He led the UK's approach on AI including the Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit and setting up the UK's AI Safety Institute. He was the UK's co-lead negotiator ("sherpa") for the AI Seoul Summit.He spent four years as a Non-Executive Board Member of the Cabinet Office and sat on the advisory board of Gov.uk.Henry also has extensive private sector experience. He founded a tech start up in 2014 backed by Y Combinator. As CEO and co-founder he took that start up to exit to a publicly traded company. He sat on the board of Hornby PLC as well as campaigning group 38 Degrees. He is an angel investor in early stage tech start ups.