# Karine Perset

Deputy Head of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies Division, OECD. TIME100 AI 2026, Thinkers. She oversaw the OECD's AI Principles, and her job includes getting 46 governments to understand AI terms the same way. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/karine-perset/))

- 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 ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karineperset))
- Career: OECD (Head of Digital Security Unit and Senior Advisor on AI, 2004 to now); ICANN (Senior Advisor, Governmental Advisory Committee, 2013–2016); Jipo Consulting (Telecommunication and Internet Consultant, 2002–2003); CarbonMedia (E-commerce Product Manager, 1999–2002) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karineperset), [time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/karine-perset/))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/karine-perset/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/karine-perset

- 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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karineperset))
- 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. ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karineperset))
- Founded the OECD.AI Policy Observatory and the OECD's AI expert network in 2020. ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karineperset))
- Oversaw the OECD AI Principles, adopted in 2019 and updated in 2024. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/karine-perset/))
- Says the hard part is getting 46 governments to understand the same thing the same way. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/karine-perset/))