# Anthropic appoints Tino Cuéllar as first Chief Global Affairs Officer

> Anthropic has appointed Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuellar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, tapping a former California Supreme Court Justice and past president of the Carnegie Endowment to run policy and government relations. Cuellar reports to president Daniela Amodei and already knew the company well, having served as a trustee of its Long-Term Benefit Trust. His resume also includes a stint as a special assistant in the Obama White House and years as a Stanford Law professor. The timing tells the real story. Earlier in 2026 the Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic, and the Trump administration moved to restrict exports of its Claude models, leaving the company navigating an increasingly hostile relationship with parts of Washington. Bringing in a heavyweight with judicial, academic and national-security credentials is a bet that policy fights, not just model quality, will shape who wins in AI. Cuellar has also co-chaired a bipartisan nuclear proliferation task force and California's Frontier AI Working Group, signaling that Anthropic wants a voice fluent in both safety governance and hardball politics as regulation tightens around frontier models.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Anthropic · Published Tuesday, August 25, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Anthropic has appointed Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuellar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, tapping a former California Supreme Court Justice and past president of the Carnegie Endowment to run policy and government relations. Cuellar reports to president Daniela Amodei and already knew the company well, having served as a trustee of its Long-Term Benefit Trust. His resume also includes a stint as a special assistant in the Obama White House and years as a Stanford Law professor. The timing tells the real story. Earlier in 2026 the Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic, and the Trump administration moved to restrict exports of its Claude models, leaving the company navigating an increasingly hostile relationship with parts of Washington. Bringing in a heavyweight with judicial, academic and national-security credentials is a bet that policy fights, not just model quality, will shape who wins in AI. Cuellar has also co-chaired a bipartisan nuclear proliferation task force and California's Frontier AI Working Group, signaling that Anthropic wants a voice fluent in both safety governance and hardball politics as regulation tightens around frontier models.

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