Camille François

François holds a master's degree from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and a master's degree in international security from Columbia University in 2013. She was a Fulbright fellow, a fellow of the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard University,^[2] and served as special advisor to the CTO of France.^[3]

She joined Google to work at Jigsaw, a unit within Google dedicated to exploring threats to open societies. She later joined Graphika as their chief innovation officer.^[4] She was featured as a Time 100 Next fellow in 2019^[5] and as an innovator under 35 by theMIT Technology Review.^[6] Some of her research focused on cyberpeace, how states are using social media for disinformation and misinformation,^[7] and on people working for troll farms such as the Internet Research Agency.^[8] She provided testimonies on Russian electoral influence operations for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.^[9]

In 2021 she joined Niantic as their global director of trust & safety.^[10] In 2023, she was appointed by Emmanuel Macron to a French committee on the right to information,^[11] and with Maria Ressa founded an innovation lab on AI and democracy at Columbia.^[12] In 2024, she joined the faculty at Columbia full-time,^[13] and co-organized with Mozilla a series of public convenings on openness and AI.^[14][15]