About
I’m currently a Full Professor in the Political Science department at Yale University and a Faculty Fellow with Yale’s Institute for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), where I lead a research agenda on Citizens' Assemblies within Democratic Innovations, a new ISPS program designed to identify and test ideas for improving the quality of democratic representation and governance.
Since 2022, I'm a Distinguished Researcher at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford.
In 2022-23, I served on the governance board of the French citizens’ convention on end of life organized by the CESE (Economic, Social and Environmental Council).
I'm part of the group of female researchers (led by Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana, and Dominique Méda) who started the movement Democratizing Work in May 2020.
I'm a strategic advisor to the non-profit organization Democracy Next.
Lastly, I’m a member of the Application Advisory Committee for OpenAI's grant program "Democratic Inputs to AI."
Awards and fellowships
2022 Joint recipient (together with philosopher John Tasioulas, Oxford University) of a $1,000, 000 grant from the Eric Schmidt Foundation for a project on “AI in a culture of human rights and democracy”
Visiting Professor at the Center for Ethics in AI, Faculty of Philosophy and the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Spring 2022
APSA “Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics” Best Book Award for Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Princeton University Press 2013)
David and Elaine Spitz Prize 2015 (awarded for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory published two years earlier)
National Endowment for the Humanities Award 2013 (for my lecture course on "How do we choose, and choose well")
Organization of conferences and workshops
2021 Third Social Epistemology Network Events International Conference, co-organized with Jason Stanley (Philosophy) at Yale University, (forthcoming October 2021): http://www.socialepistemologynetwork.com/events.html
2021 “Toward Citizen-Legislators? The Case of the French Citizens’ Convention for Climate.” On-line three-day international conference organized at Yale University with Res Publica, May 19-21 (forthcoming) https://campuspress.yale.edu/citizenlegislators/ [version anglaise] ; https://campuspress.yale.edu/citoyenslegislateurs/ [site en français]
2018 Third of three workshops on “Digital Technology and Democratic Theory,” co-organized with Rob Reich and Lucy Bernholz (Stanford University), Stanford University, December 14-15
2018 Second of three workshops on “Digital Technology and Democratic Theory.” Co-organized with Rob Reich and Lucy Bernholz (Stanford University), Stanford University, June 27-29
2018 International conference on “The Crisis of Democracy: Conceptual and Institutional Perspectives.” Co-organized with Seyla Benhabib, Yale University January 25-26: https://campuspress.yale.edu/crisisofdemocracy/
2017 Workshop on my book manuscript Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the 21st Century, PACS Center, Stanford University, May 7
2017 First of Three Workshops on “Digital Technology and Democratic Theory.” Co-organized with Rob Reich and Lucy Bernholz (Stanford University), Stanford University, May 4-6, 2017
2017 Workshop on my book manuscript Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the 21st Century, March 31, 2017, Yale University
2016 Second Workshop on “Experiments in Democracy” co-organized with Jón Olafsson (University of Iceland) and Maia Sätala (Turku University), Turku, Finland, October 28
2016 First Workshop on “Experiments in Democracy” co-organized with Jón Olafsson (University of Iceland) and Maia Sätala (Turku University), Reykjavik, May 20
2011 Oslo-Yale International Conference “Epistemic Democracy in Practice,” co-organized with Susan Stokes and Björn Erik Rasch, Yale University, October 20-22
2008 International conference “Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms,” with Jon Elster, Collège de France, Paris, May 22-23: https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-jon-elster/p1353422287027_content.htm
2008 International conference “Masks and Veils in Civil Wars,” co-organized with Jon Elster, Collège de France, Paris, December 7-8
Other professional activities
Notable service to professional organizations
Member of the Executive Editorial Committee (EEC) of Political Theory
Member of the editorial board of Democratic Theory
Member of the International Board of the School of Transnational Governance (cluster “Democracy”) created at the European Institute in Florence in June 2017
Member of the steering committee of the Political Epistemology Network https://www.politicalepistemologynetwork.com/
Member of the steering committee of the Social Epistemology Network http://www.socialepistemologynetwork.com/members.html
Member of the Scientific Board of the GIS (Groupement d’intérêt scientifique) Démocratie et Participation (a French community of academics researching democracy and participation) http://www.participation-et-democratie.fr/fr/content/groupement-dinteret-scientifique-sur-la-participation-du-public-aux-processus-decisionnels-e)
Co-founder and president of the APSA section “Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics” (formerly known as “Political Epistemology”) 2014-present
Member of the Editorial Board of Economics and Philosophy
Reviewer for the American Political Science Review; Journal of Politics; Journal of Political Philosophy; Social Epistemology; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; Political Studies, The Journal of the American Philosophical Association, the Journal of Philosophy and Medicine; Constellations; Journal of Legislative Studies; Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Policy & Internet
Reviewer for Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press; Princeton University Press; ECPR; M.I.T. Press
Policy work
Expert consultant for the French CESE (Economic, Social, and Environmental Council) on the use of mini-publics—January 2019-Spring 2021
o Initiative “Fractures et Transitions: Réconcilier la France” Spring 2019
o Initiative “Générations Nouvelles” Spring 2020
o Vaccination campaign involving 35 randomly selected citizens Spring 2021
Expert consultant for the campaign of Audrey Pulvar, candidate for the regional elections (Ile-de-France), January 2020
Expert consultant for the Council of Europe, Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, Presentation on February 4, 2021 (translated in French, German, Russian, and Italian)
Expert consultant for Marc Fesneau, the Minister of Relations with Parliament and Citizen Participation, November 19, 2020
Expert Consultant for the French Prime Minister’s administrative services (SIG, aka Service d’Information du Gouvernement), Fall 2020-present
Expert consultant for the French government on institutional reforms and participatory constitutional processes (via Eric Buge, Directeur Adjoint de Cabinet, Présidence de l’Assemblée Nationale, and Roman Baudin, responsable des formations à l’assemblée nationale), March 2018-present
Expert consultant on the use of crowdsourcing techniques for the Finnish government (Ministry of Environment and Committee for the Future), Fall 2013
Work with Think Tanks
Chatham House (aka, Royal Institute of International Affairs, a British Think tank): co-direction of the project “Democracy Audit” with Hans Kudnani regarding democratic processes and their shortcomings in the UK, France, and Germany
Institut Montaigne (a French think tank): participation in 8 meetings on the topic of “Democracy under duress”
Consulting
Consulting for the outdoors clothing company Patagonia, August 2020-present
Member of the FIDE (Federation for Innovation in Democracy Europe) Advisory Board
Member of the international advisory council of the School of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco, January 2019-present
Member of the advisory board of the startup company empowr.com, January 2015-February 2018
Consultant for the founders of Decisionsfutures (a branch of Newsfutures specializing in consulting activities), June 2008-June 2009
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While at Harvard University, I also studied documentary-making under Ross McElwee. For two years, I filmed and edited several short student films. I still hope some day to bring together my day job as a political theorist and this one time hobby of mine, which I now unfortunately have little time to indulge.