Organizational structure and governance

Guillaume Chaslot, Researcher at Université Paris-Est

Guillaume Chaslot focused his PhD on Monte-Carlo methods for Computer Go. After working at Microsoft, YouTube and Google, he created the website AlgoTransparency.org to to analyze the impact of YouTube's AI on major societal issues. He is now working as a research engineer at the University of Paris Est, and is an advisor at the Center for Humane Technology.

Nicolas de Bellefonds is a Partner and Managing Director at BCG and the leader of BCG GAMMA in France.

After graduating from Ecole Centrale Paris in 2005, Nicolas joined the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked for Telecommunications and Media companies riding the first waves of digital transformation between Paris and New York.

Since 2013 he is the leader of BCG GAMMA for France, an entity dedicated to business transformation through Data Science & Artificial Intelligence. In this role he helps leading French companies leveraging advances in AI to reinvent their businesses and value proposition to consumers. He is passionate about technology and its impacts on work, and contributes to several business and university think tanks on the topic.

Nicolas is 36 years old and is married with two young kids – and looks forward to spending more time with them once an AI has replaced him.

Jean-Rémi Gratadour is Executive Director of HEC Paris IDEA Center and Coordinator of the MBA Digital Specialization.

He previously was Managing Director of ACSEL (Trade Association of Digital Economy) and member of EMOTA Strategy Committee (European Multichannel & Online Trade Association). Before that, he was E-commerce Director of GeoPost (holding company of DPD international parcels subsidiaries of La Poste Group). He has also been Secretary General of the Club Senate and founded the on-line art bookstore DessinOriginal.com.