I’m an economist studying how AI is reshaping the world economy — and how AI, as a method, remakes economics itself. Trade organized global production, platforms reorganized it, and now the business model of AI is building a new global infrastructure on top of both: a new paradigm, with its own risks and opportunities. Network theory, natural-language processing, geospatial data science (geoAI) and machine learning are how I read it.
Professor of Data Science for Global Transformations and Director of the Department of International Business at HEC Montréal, and Principal Investigator at CIRANO. Since June 2026, Resident Fellow at NICT in Tokyo, working on multilingualism and multiculturalism in AI. Fellow at the Harvard Business School AI Institute, Expert with GPAI (OECD.ai), and Researcher at CERIUM; past President of the International Trade and Finance Association. Previously at Polytechnique Montréal, Middlebury College and Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, with visiting positions at Harvard University. Graduate of the Harvard Business Analytics Program; Ph.D. in Financial Economics, ESSEC Business School, Paris.
Full biography →CIRANO — founder of the International Affairs Vice-Presidency (2011–2016) and of the Strategy & International Economics group, now the Global Affairs theme.
HEC Montréal — Academic Director, Campus Abroad (2022–).
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics — international advisory board (2015–), open-science initiative.
GVC Digital Twin Lab (gvcdtlab.ca) — co-creator: a digital twin of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence economy, combining transport and trade.
SKEMA Global Lab in Augmented Intelligence — founder (2018–2020).
GMT Lab and PolyFinances, Polytechnique Montréal, CIRANO Social Data Science Lab (2013–2018) and Mondo, the international data platform (2011–).
Observatoire de la francophonie économique, Université de Montréal (2016–2018) — co-author of the founding proposal.
HBS Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness — HEC Montréal representative in the MOC network, the first Canadian university to join.
Seven AEA annual-meeting sessions organized (2016–2022), plus the ITFA monthly research seminar (2020–).
Founding president of an NGO started in 2011, after a mission in Haïti for the Inter-American Development Bank following the 2010 earthquake.
A francophone initiative with researcher Bernice Bancole: a three-year programme of 12 courses for 200 young women — data science for humanity.