Kayla Blomquist is a DPhil (PhD) student at the University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute. She co-founded the Oxford China Policy Lab and previously served as a U.S. diplomat in China. Her primary research focus is understanding the sociopolitical and bureaucratic drivers of US-China AI competition and identifying promising mitigatory approaches. Kayla received her B.A. in International Relations, Public Policy, and Chinese from the University of Denver and MSc in the Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute.