Jake Laming Free

Jake Laming Free is a postgraduate student in the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) program at Georgetown University, pursuing the Science, Technology, and International Affairs concentration. Based in Washington, D.C., he focuses on emerging technology policy with an emphasis on AI governance, U.S.–China relations, space, and global risk. Most recently, Jake worked for six months as Chief of Staff to the cofounders at Fathom.org, a U.S. nonprofit that builds and scales the solutions society needs to navigate a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Previously, he served as a Research Consultant with the U.K.–based Progressive Ecosystem, producing research and policy memos and conducting due diligence for a donor consortium investing in progressive political organizations. He has also worked as a Research Assistant for a Peer in the House of Lords, focusing on how G10 countries are responding to demographic changes such as population aging and immigration. Jake’s enthusiasm for working on big policy problems began during his time assisting the Head of Research at Labour Together, where he built local election datasets, applied clustering methods to analyze voting patterns, and supported research on a range of U.K. policy priorities. Jake holds a BSc (Hons) in Physics from the University of Warwick, where his dissertation involved statistical analysis of data products from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. He is proficient in Python and machine learning tools like PyTorch and scikit-learn