2025 OASIS Board Candidate

Sarah Liang

Sarah Liang, Global Responsible AI Leader, EY

Biography:
Sarah Liang is a Partner at EY and serves as the Global Responsible AI Leader, where she drives comprehensive AI governance initiatives throughout the firm and for client solutions worldwide. Her expertise encompasses monitoring the regulatory landscape, aligning with legal and compliance standards, designing and activating AI risk management solutions, developing and implementing responsible AI frameworks, and creating technology solutions to operationalize AI governance without hindering innovation.

These responsibilities are strategically aligned to disrupt traditional operational models within the organization and redefine how EY serves its clients. By integrating responsible AI practices, Sarah is leading the charge to transition both EY and its clients from Horizon 1 — where foundational AI capabilities are established — to Horizon 2, where innovative AI solutions are actively deployed to drive value and efficiency. This transformative approach enhances service offerings while preparing organizations to embrace the full potential of exponential technologies.

Sarah actively participates in key standards organizations, including the NIST AI Safety Consortium and the OASIS Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), bringing cross-industry insights and collaborative approaches to standards development. She also worked together with the CEO Leadership Alliance Orange County to help establish the new OC AI Principles, which will help guide responsible AI adoption and innovation in the region. Her work focuses on bridging legal, risk, compliance, and engineering teams to create AI governance frameworks that deliver measurable ROI, contextually appropriate risk management, and scalable innovation capabilities.

Through her leadership role, Sarah establishes specifications and standards for AI governance that ensure both technical integrity and swift implementation across various organizational contexts, while promoting cross-functional collaboration for comprehensive approaches to responsible AI deployment.

Additional Information:
Views on Open Standards and Strategic Opportunities
Open standards are essential for operationalizing AI governance at scale. The current challenge facing organizations is the disconnect between policy frameworks and practical implementation — governance that delivers measurable outcomes while enabling innovation. This presents a strategic opportunity for OASIS to develop AI governance specifications through its proven technical committee process.

Suggested Areas for OASIS Expansion
As an OASIS member who is highly involved with CoSAI with extensive cross-organizational experience driving AI strategy, governance, and risk and compliance design and adoption for the development and deployment of AI systems, Sarah is positioned to provide leadership and drive initiatives in areas where she sees significant potential for OASIS to:

  • Develop technical specifications for embedded AI governance that can be referenced in procurement and policy
  • Create open-source frameworks for AI risk assessment and management that organizations can adopt and contribute to
  • Establish standards for AI system evaluation and maturity assessment that provide objective benchmarks
  • Drive and scale the adoption of framework and tools developed by OASIS leveraging EY’s global network of member firms, clients, and standards bodies/NGOs.
  • Strategic Partnerships

Sarah’s participation in NIST and CoSAI initiatives has demonstrated the value of collaboration between standards bodies, industry, and government. OASIS could strengthen its AI governance work through partnerships with these organizations while maintaining its independent, open standards approach.

The timing is critical — as AI deployment accelerates, the need for practical, implementable governance standards becomes more urgent. OASIS’s collaborative model and path to de jure approval positions it uniquely to lead in this space.

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