Dina Hussein

Dina Hussein works at the intersection of AI safety, security, and global policy. As a security expert embedded within OpenAI’s Product Policy team, she helps shape safety, security, and proportionality guardrails for frontier AI models, with a focus on balancing innovation with the prevention of serious real-world harm.

Before joining OpenAI, she led Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy development and expert partnerships at Meta, where she expanded the company’s threat actor framework, created the Strategic Network Disruption protocol, and led collaboration with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT).

Her expertise is rooted in radicalisation, counterterrorism policy, and counterinsurgency in the MENA region. Her research has examined how violent extremists adopt novel technologies, the role of tribal dynamics within terrorist organisations, and the securitisation of civilian space. Before moving into the tech sector, she worked across the United Nations, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Amnesty International, the Middle East Institute, and the United States Institute of Peace.

Drawing on years of work on fast-moving security threats in complex environments, she now focuses on AI research and the governance of frontier AI, particularly where safety, security, alignment, and broader societal risk intersect.