Chris Liddell joins Anthropic's board

Anthropic appointed Chris Liddell to its board of directors. Liddell had spent more than 30 years in senior leadership roles, including as chief financial officer at Microsoft, General Motors and International Paper, and as a Deputy White House Chief of Staff during President Trump’s first term. At the time of his appointment he directed Commonwealth Fusion Systems and the Council on Foreign Relations, and chaired New Zealand’s largest environmental foundation.

Co-founder Daniela Amodei said Liddell had “a track record of helping organizations get those things right when the stakes are highest” at the intersection of technology, public service and governance. Liddell said his career had taught him that “the governance of transformative technologies matters as much as the technologies themselves.”

The appointment added a figure with direct experience of the first Trump administration to the board of a public benefit corporation navigating an increasingly active US federal AI policy environment, alongside Anthropic’s other board members drawn from corporate and civil-society backgrounds.