Anne Bouverot facts for kids
Anne Bouverot (born 21 March 1966) is a French business executive and a philanthropist.
She is the Chair of the Board of Ecole Normale Supérieure since July 2022.
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Education
Anne Bouverot attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris where she studied computer science leading to an M.S. and later a Ph.D in artificial intelligence (in 1991). She also graduated with a degree in telecommunications from Telecom ParisTech.
Career
In the early 1990s, Bouverot worked as IT project manager for Telmex in Mexico.
From 1996, she worked for the U.S. company Global One until 2002 when she was appointed vice president at Equant's IT services unit.
In 2004, she was chief of staff to the CEO of Orange in the UK, returning to Paris in 2007 to work on international business development with assignments in Kenya, Armenia, Tunisian and Portugal.
She then became executive vice president, mobile services, for France Télécom Orange.
In 2011, she was appointed CEO and board member of GSMA, the global association of mobile operators.
While she was with GSMA, Bouverot promoted initiatives for attracting more women to work in the mobile and ICT sectors, launching the Connected Women programme which hosts events around the world. She has also been instrumental in organizing the GSMA's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Held each year, the event attracts prominent speakers from the mobile and related fields.
In August 2015, she joined as Chair and CEO, Morpho (subsequently renamed Safran Identity & Security), a company providing biometrics and cryptography solutions for governments and businesses, with 8,600 people in 55 countries and €2B in revenue. Morpho was acquired by Advent International at the end of 2017 and renamed Idemia.
Fondation Abeona, “championing responsible AI”
In 2018, to reconcile her interest in science and technology with a desire to contribute to a fairer society, Anne Bouverot co-founded Fondation Abeona, with Tanya Perelmuter.
Committed to responsible AI, Fondation Abeona is a collective of personalities committed to a human and responsible approach to artificial intelligence in a partnership-based approach.
The foundation created the AI and Social Justice Chair at ENS whose first guest was Dr. Kate Crawford, professor at New York University and co-founder of the AI Now Institute. And it also launched, in partnership with OpenClassrooms and Institut Montaigne, « DestinationAI », a MOOC on risks and opportunities of AI, already followed by more than 250,000 people.
Other activities
- She was recently appointed co-chair, alongside Philippe Aghion, of the Committee on Generative Artificial Intelligence, created by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne
- In February 2023, she became President of Series Mania, the biggest event dedicated uniquely to TV and streaming series in Europe.
- She is the Chair of the board of directors of Cellnex, Europe’s leading operator of telecommunications infrastructure, since March 2023, having been a Board member (since 2018). She also chairs Technicolor Creative Studios, a company specialized in visual effects and animation services for entertainment, media, and advertising.
- Previously a director of Edenred (2010-2021) and Capgemini (2013-2021), she also joined in 2019 the Board of Directors of Ledger, a unicorn and member of the Next 40.
- She is a senior advisor for TowerBrook Capital Partner since 2018.
Decorations
Anne Bouverot was made Knight of the National Order of Merit and Officer of the Legion of Honor (France).
