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Camille Francois
ROOST & Columbia University
Professor, Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs; Founding President, ROOST
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Camille François is the founding president of ROOST, a non-profit building a commons of open-source online safety tools, and a professor of practice at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.She has held senior Trust & Safety and research roles across social media, cybersecurity, and gaming — including Principal Researcher at Google, Senior Director at Niantic, and Chief Innovation Officer at Graphika. She is known for building high-performing teams to detect and mitigate online harms at scale, from child safety to violent extremism, and her research has helped shape safety practices across major Silicon Valley platforms.Her public interest work includes investigating information operations for the U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee, leading France’s governmental inquiry into immersive technologies, and being appointed by President Emmanuel Macron to co-chair the national consultative assembly on the future of the information society. Her current research focuses on public interest AI and new open-source practices.Recognized by TIME’s “100 Next,” MIT Tech Review’s “35 Under 35,” Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies,” and the World Economic Forum, she is also a Fulbright Scholar and a Young Leader of the French-American Foundation. She is affiliated with the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center and the French Institute of Geopolitics, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, and Le Monde.She lives and works in New York City.
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