Research rooted in implementation.

Hadley Spadaccini is the founder of Cassowary Research. Her work examines how procurement rules, assurance practices, industrial policy, and commercial incentives determine whether AI governance succeeds in practice.

She is a Fulbright Scholar at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, where she researches how industrial policy shapes semiconductor firms’ incentives to implement controls on technologies supporting advanced AI. As an ERA:AI Governance Fellow in Cambridge, she examined how civilian procurement in the United States and United Kingdom could translate AI safety practices into enforceable contractual and assurance requirements.

She previously researched Taiwanese semiconductor investment through National Chengchi University. Her work draws on Mandarin-language corporate and government sources, interviews, and sustained engagement with Taiwan’s technology-policy institutions.

Before moving into policy research, Hadley spent nearly a decade in the AI industry, including work on governance, deployment architecture, product strategy, and risk. She has also conducted Mandarin-language open-source intelligence for a project funded by US Indo-Pacific Command and published analysis of US-China relations and technology policy.