Matthew Philip Clifford CBE[1][2] (born 1985) is a British entrepreneur. Along with Alice Bentinck, he is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs First, an international talent investor and startup accelerator founded in 2011.[3] He is the chair of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency.[3]
In the spring of 2023, Clifford helped design the Frontier AI Task Force, which later became the United Kingdom's AI Safety Institute.[4] In August 2023, Clifford was appointed to lead the preparatory work for the 2023 AI Safety Summit, along with the UK's former Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Black.[5]