TIME100 AI 2026 · Thinkers
Karine Perset
Deputy Head of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies Division, OECD
She oversaw the OECD's AI Principles, and her job includes getting 46 governments to understand AI terms the same way.
- Born
- Not published
- Now
- Head of Digital Security Unit and Senior Advisor on AI, OECD
- Studied
- Université Paris Dauphine, University of Westminster
Interesting facts
- Before AI
Started out as an e-commerce product manager during the dot-com years, before joining the OECD as a technology policy analyst in 2004.
linkedin.com - Detour
Left the OECD for three years to work at ICANN, the body that runs the internet's domain name system, then came back to lead AI policy.
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Founded the OECD.AI Policy Observatory and the OECD's AI expert network in 2020.
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Oversaw the OECD AI Principles, adopted in 2019 and updated in 2024.
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Career
- OECDHead of Digital Security Unit and Senior Advisor on AI2004 to now
- ICANNSenior Advisor, Governmental Advisory Committee2013–2016
- Jipo ConsultingTelecommunication and Internet Consultant2002–2003
- CarbonMediaE-commerce Product Manager1999–2002
Education
- Master's, International economics, Université Paris Dauphine, 2004
- Master's, ICT and telecommunications management, Université Paris Dauphine, 1998
- BA, Economics, University of Westminster, 1997
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