Moderator


Anne Bouverot

Special Envoy for the Summit on AI Action, Office of the President, French Republic

Moderator


Biography

Anne Bouverot is Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL), and the French President's special envoy for the February 2025 summit on artificial intelligence.She has spent most of her career in the technology sector and now advises a number of public and private technology companies and scale ups.In 2017, she co-founded Fondation Abeona on the societal impacts of artificial intelligence. With economist Philippe Aghion, in 2024 she co-chaired the Commission that published the report ‘AI: our ambition for France’.She spent the first 20 years of her career at Orange, then became Director General of GSMA, the global mobile operators’ association, and later CEO of digital security and identity solutions company Morpho. She is a graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure in mathematics and holds a PhD in artificial intelligence.