Saad is an AI Governance Researcher at the Safe AI Forum (SAIF), fiscally sponsored by FAR.AI. Prior to his work at SAIF, Saad was a management consultant at Bain and Company, and a Winter Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI, where he focused on identifying areas of potential Sino-western cooperation on AI safety and governance. Saad holds a MA in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University and BA in Politics and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.