Camille François

Dr. Camille François is the founding president of ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) and an Assistant Professor of Practice at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She served as a senior executive in 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 and work has helped shape safety practices across major Silicon Valley platforms. Her public interest work includes investigating information operations for the US 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,” and the World Economic Forum, she is also a Fulbright Scholar and a Young Leader of the World Economic Forum and the French-American Foundation. She is a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center and the French Institute of Geopolitics.