Professor of Data Science for Global Transformations

Computational methods for the global economy.

Network theory, natural-language processing, geospatial data science (geoAI) and machine learning — reading the ninety percent of the world’s information that is unstructured to understand how information flows, algorithmic coordination and technological change reshape the global economy, and where it is heading.

HEC Montréal CIRANO — PI, World Economy NICT Tokyo — Resident Fellow Harvard Business School AI Institute GPAI · OECD.ai — Expert
97 ARTICLES · 12 BOOKS · 27 CHAPTERS · CO-AUTHORSHIP NETWORK, 2000–2026
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About

Professor of Data Science for Global Transformations and Director of the Department of International Business at HEC Montréal, and Principal Investigator at CIRANO. Since June 2026, Resident Fellow at NICT in Tokyo, working on multilingualism and multiculturalism in AI. Fellow at the Harvard Business School AI Institute, Expert with GPAI (OECD.ai), and Researcher at CERIUM; past President of the International Trade and Finance Association. Previously at Polytechnique Montréal, Middlebury College and Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, with visiting positions at Harvard University. Graduate of the Harvard Business Analytics Program; Ph.D. in Financial Economics, ESSEC Business School, Paris.

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97
peer-reviewed articles
12
books published
54k+
CRAN package downloads
$6.5M+
funded research, PI & co-PI
Research themes
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01Computational methods & AI for economicsNLP, machine learning, geoAI and digital twins on economic questions. 02Digital markets, platforms & competitionAlgorithmic pricing, platform dynamics, collusion and the antitrust response. 03Institutions, information & societyCentral-bank communication, disinformation, ESG and the climate transition. 04Global economy, trade & geoeconomicsMonetary integration, value chains, corridors and digital sovereignty.
Recent publications
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Institutional development
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Direction & governance

CIRANO — founder of the International Affairs Vice-Presidency (2011–2016) and of the Strategy & International Economics group, now the Global Affairs theme.

HEC Montréal — Academic Director, Campus Abroad (2022–).

ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics — international advisory board (2015–), open-science initiative.

Labs & platforms created

GVC Digital Twin Lab (gvcdtlab.ca) — co-creator: a digital twin of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence economy, combining transport and trade.

SKEMA Global Lab in Augmented Intelligence — founder (2018–2020).

GMT Lab, Polytechnique Montréal, CIRANO Social Data Science Lab (2013–2018) and Mondo, the international data platform (2011–).

Programs & convening

Observatoire de la francophonie économique, Université de Montréal (2016–2018) — co-author of the founding proposal.

HBS Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness — HEC Montréal representative in the MOC network, the first Canadian university to join.

Seven AEA annual-meeting sessions organized (2016–2022), plus the ITFA monthly research seminar (2020–).

Teaching
MScExploitation and Exploration of Geospatial Data — geoAI MScQuantitative Methods in International Business Research — R MScThe Platform Economy and Global Technological Innovation MScGestion des investissements internationaux — Python BAAScience des données et affaires internationales avec R All courses and pedagogy →
Code & data
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Social engagement
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2011 — Haïti

edhaiti

Founding president of an NGO started in 2011, after a mission in Haïti for the Inter-American Development Bank following the 2010 earthquake.

Ongoing — Bénin

Science des données au féminin en Afrique

A francophone initiative with researcher Bernice Bancole: a two-year programme for 200 young women — data science for humanity.