The Summit's Team

Special Envoy: Anne Bouverot
Advisor to the Special Envoy: Arno Amabile
Secretary General: Chloé Goupille

Thematic Envoys:

Public Interest AI: Martin Tisné
Future of Work: Sana de Courcelles
Innovation & Culture: Roxanne Varza
Trust in AI: Guillaume Poupard
International Governance: Henri Verdier

Presentation of the Summit’s team

Anne Bouverot – Special Envoy

Anne Bouverot spent most of her career in the technology sector and now advises a number of public and private technology companies and scale ups. She chairs the Board of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, France’s leading “grande école” in Science and Humanities. In 2017 she co-founded the Fondation Abeona “Championing Responsible AI”, addressing the societal impacts of artificial intelligence. Programs include a visiting Chair on Social Justice & AI and an introductory MOOC on AI already followed by more than 350 000 people. She co-chairs the AI & Society Institute recently launched in Paris.

She spent the first 20 years of her career at Orange in a number of positions, then became Director General of the GSMA (the global mobile telecommunications association) and later CEO of Morpho (digital security and identity solutions). She is a mathematics graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds both an engineering degree in telecommunications and a PhD in artificial intelligence.

Arno Amabile – Adviser to the Special Envoy

A data scientist turned civil servant, Arno Amabile joined the summit’s team after experiences in digital transformation and industrial development. In 2023 and 2024, he co-wrote the report of the French AI Commission while strengthening the French digital skills in government as deputy head of the Corps des Mines graduate program, which recruits,trains and advises top-level engineers for the French State.

From 2021 to 2022, he led the digital task force of the “Etats Généraux de la Justice”, assembled to reform the French justice system, before leading the development of the Justice Ministry’s new digital strategy. He began his career as a data scientist at New York City Hall and at Zalando in Berlin, before moving to Strasbourg, where he led the State’s action for regional industrial development. In this role, he coordinated government support for businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic recovery plan.

An economics graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, he holds degrees from New York University in Urban Informatics and from Paris School of Economics in Economic Policy and Analysis.

Chloé Goupille - Secretary General

As a career diplomat, Chloé Goupille has been involved both in France’s European policy and in global affairs such as climate change and global health. She has served in the French Embassies in London and Berlin. From 2013 to 2015, she was Adviser to the French Minister Delegate for European Affairs, focusing notably on climate change and energy. From 2020 to 2023, she was deputy Europe Adviser to the President of the French Republic and contributed to organizing the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Her work in French foreign policy related to global public goods included tracking of France’s contribution to the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and she later worked as Senior Adviser to the French Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, DC. Chloé speaks French, German and English and is learning Arabic. She holds degrees from the London School of Economics, the University of Kent and Sciences Po Lille. 

Morgane Le Poul - Deputy Secretary-General

She joined the Summit for Action on AI after several years in ministerial offices (Government spokesperson, Ministry of of the Government, Ministry of the City, Ministry of Health in charge of the Digital Economy, Ministry of Education) as an communication and press advisor. In her previous duties, during the COVID-19 crisis she supported the Vaccine Strategy the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council, and also worked at Bercy on the DSA and DMA negotiations during the French presidency of the European of the European Union. From 2023 to 2024, she contributed to the implementation and follow-up of the Etats généraux de l'information, until the submission of their report on last September. Morgane is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and Paris-Dauphine University.

Martin Tisné – Public Interest AI

Martin Tisné leads the AI Collaborative, an initiative of The Omidyar Group created to help regulate artificial intelligence based on democratic values and principles and ensure the public has a voice in that regulation.
Martin brings over 15 years of investment and leadership experience to his role, including advising several Heads of State on AI policy, serving as a board member of the Partnership on AI, and helping establish two multi-stakeholder initiatives and three NGOs.

He founded the Open Government Partnership (OGP) alongside the Obama White House and helped OGP grow to a 70+ country initiative. He also initiated the International Open Data Charter, the G7 Open Data Charter, and the G20’s commitment to open data principles. Additionally, Martin founded and led the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, a donor collaborative bringing together the world’s largest open government funders, co-founded Publish What You Fund, a global campaign for foreign aid transparency, and co-founded Integrity Watch Afghanistan, the country’s leading anti-corruption NGO.
As a philanthropic entrepreneur, Martin helped set up AINow, the Ethics & Governance of AI Fund, the AWO agency, Digital Action, and Reset among other initiatives.

Before his appointment as CEO of the AI Collaborative in September 2023, Martin led Luminate’s efforts to address global digital threats to democracy through policy change, campaigns, partnerships, and litigation.

Sana de Courcelles – Future of Work

Sana de Courcelles is  Senior Adviser for Special Initiatives at the International Labour Organization and the Director of the Secretariat of the Global Coalition for Social Justice.

She has been Health Counsellor to the Permanent Representation of France to the United Nations in Geneva since September 2019, with a special responsibility for the international response to COVID-19.

Previously, she served as Executive Director of the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po and an affiliated professor specializing in State Reform and Health.

From 2014 to 2019, she worked at the World Health Organization on Health Systems and Innovation in Geneva. She also held roles as Parliamentary Adviser for the French Commissaire Général à l'Investissement, and began her career as a public sector strategy and organization consultant at Capgemini Consulting.

Roxanne Varza – Innovation & Culture

Roxanne Varza is currently Director of STATION F, the world’s biggest startup campus, located in Paris. She is also an angel investor and a scout for Sequoia Capital, and sits on the boards of NRJ Group and Fonds pour l’Indépendance de la Presse (FIP). 

Before joining STATION F, she worked at Microsoft and TechCrunch. She also co-founded Tech.eu (acquired by Webrazzi), StartHer (now Sista) and the Failcon Paris conference. Roxanne is trilingual and holds degrees from UCLA, Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics.

Guillaume Poupard – Trust in AI

A graduate of École Polytechnique (X92 class) and a doctor in cryptology, Guillaume has worked for the French Prime Minister and Ministry of Defense, where he specialized in cyber security and cyber defence. As Director General of ANSSI, the French National Cyber Security Agency, from 2014 to 2022, Guillaume Poupard played a key role in asserting France’s leadership in cybers ecurity on a European and international scale, both by promoting a harmonized European response to cyber threats and by helping to bring together ecosystems of public and private actors on cyber security issues. Since January 2023, he has been Deputy Managing Director of Docaposte, a leader in trusted digital technologies, in particular in charge of technological assets around artificial intelligence, cyber, IT and cloud computing.

Henri Verdier – Global AI Governance

Henri Verdier was born in 1968. He is currently Ambassador for Digital Affairs at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Previously, he was the interministerial Digital Information and Communications Systems Director (DG Dinsic) of France and director of Etalab, the French agency for public open data.

Mr Verdier is also an entrepreneur: he was the co-founder and CEO of MFG Labs, an online startup involved in social data mining, and chairman of the board of Cap Digital, the French-European Cluster for Digital Content and Services, located in Paris. He is member of the ARCEP strategic committee, member of the CNIL strategic committee and has also served as a member of the board of Paris-Sorbonne University.
In addition, Mr Verdier was the founding director of Éditions Odile Jacob Multimedia, a publishing company in the field of e-learning, and executive adviser for innovation at Lagardère Group as well as director of foresight at Institut Telecom. In 2012, he co-authored, with Nicolas Colin, the book L’Age de la multitude, entreprendre et gouverner après la révolution numérique (The Age of Multitude, Entrepreneurship and Governance After the Digital Revolution). Mr Verdier is a graduate of École Normale Supérieure.