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Anne Bouverot

Special Envoy for AI, Co Chair of the Council of Digital and AI
France

Anne Bouverot is France’s special envoy for AI, Co-President of Conseil de l’IA et du Numérique, and President of the Board of Directors of l’École normale supérieure.

After a PhD in computer science, she spent most of her career in the technology sector and now advises companies and “scale ups”. She co-chaired the “AI: our ambition for France” report in March 2024. As the President’s special envoy, she led preparations for the summit for action on AI held in Paris in February 2025.

She spent the first 20 years of her career at Orange, then became CEO of the GSMA, the global association of telecommunications operators
, and then President of the digital security company Morpho within the Safran Group.