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The Institute is jointly governed by its academic partners—Université Paris Dauphine, École normale supérieure (ENS), and Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)—together with the AI & Society Association.

Steering Committee

- Marc Mézard, Professor at Bocconi University, Milan
- Anne Bouverot, Chair of the Board of ENS-PSL
- Frédéric Worms, Director of the École normale supérieure
- Bruno Bouchard, President of Université Paris Dauphine
- El Mouhoub Mouhoud, President of Université PSL
- Stéphanie Fougou, President of the European Company Lawyers Association
- Constance de Leusse, Executive Director of the AI & Society Institute
- Hugo Mercier, Scientific Director of the AI & Society Institute

Affiliated Researchers and Experts

The IIAS Affiliation Program aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethical, social, economic, and political challenges raised by AI. It also seeks to promote synergy between academic research, technical expertise, and civil society perspectives in order to inform public policy, guide responsible uses of AI, and maximize societal impact.
Affiliated researchers and experts are approved by the Institute’s Steering Committee.  

Affiliated Researchers

François Acquatellla, University Paris Dauphine

Sacha Altay, University of Zurich

Eric Brousseau, University de Paris Dauphine

Aurélie Bugeau University of Bordeaux

>Tomasz Hollanek, University of Cambridge

Dr Tomasz Hollanek is an Assistant Research Professor at the Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, working at the intersection of AI ethics, critical design, and human-AI interaction.

His current work spans three areas: the ethics of human-AI interaction design (focusing on AI companions and ‘griefbots’), collaboration on design standards and policy (co-developer of HEAT – the High-Risk EU AI Act Toolkit), and participatory projects to strengthen public understanding of AI.

Before his current role, Tomasz completed his PhD at Cambridge, was a Visiting Research Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and contributed to the Global AI Narratives Project. He regularly advises government, NGOs, and industry on responsible AI.

> Simon Bunel, INSEAD & École Normale Supérieure

Simon Bunel is a postdoctoral researcher at INSEAD's Stone Centre, an associate professor in the economics department at École Normale Supérieure, and an associate researcher at the Farhi Innovation Lab at Collège de France.

His work focuses primarily on the effects of technological change and Artificial Intelligence on growth, productivity, and employment. He is co-author, with Philippe Aghion and Céline Antonin, of the book "The Power of Creative Destruction" (Le pouvoir de la destruction créatrice), published by Odile Jacob in 2020. Ses travaux portent principalement sur les effets du changement technologique et de l’intelligence artificielle sur la croissance, la productivité et l’emploi.

> Florence G'Sell, Stanford University & University of Lorraine

Florence G'sell is a Visiting Professor at Stanford University (Freeman Spogli Institute), where she leads the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies. She is a Professor of Private Law at the University of Lorraine (currently on leave), a fellow at the AI and Society Institute (ENS-PSL) and a research affiliate at the Centre for Digital Law (Singapore Management University).

From 2019 to 2025, she led the Digital Governance and Sovereignty Chair at Sciences Po (Paris). Her recent publications include Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (Stanford Cyber Policy Center, 2024) and Statutory Obsolescence in the Age of Innovation: a Few Thoughts about GDPR (2025). Professor G'sell holds a PhD in Private Law from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and holds the French agrégation in Private Law and Criminal Sciences.

Théophile Lenoir, University of Milan

Anne-Laure Ligozat, Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences Laboratory

Arnaud Mias, Université Paris Dauphine

Murielle Popa-Fabre, AI & Society Institute (ENS)

Olivia Tambou, Université Paris Dauphine

Affiliated Experts :
Mitchell Baker, former Mozilla

Experts Who Supported the Institute During Its Launch Phase

- Jamal Atif, Professor and Vice-President of Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
- Laurent Daudet, Co-Director and Co-Founder of LightOn
- Carly Kind, Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute
- Xavier Lazarus, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Elaia
- Yann Le Cun, AI researcher, 2018 Turing Award laureate
- Tanya Perelmuter, Co-Founder, Abeona Foundation
- Gabriel Peyré, Director of the ENS Data Science Center
- Isabelle Ryl, Director, PRAIRIE / Paris School of AI
- Valérie Theis, Deputy Director for Humanities and Social Sciences, ENS
- Martin Tisné, Director of AI Collaborative, Omidyar Group
- Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal

 

Mis à jour le 6/3/2026

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