Systems don’t fail because smart people weren’t in the room; they fail because the wrong incentives were. The hardest problems aren’t the ones where no one knows the solution; they’re the ones where someone does, and has reasons not to implement it. That is the work Benoît is drawn to, and why he is here.
Over twenty years, he has led transformations in places where getting it wrong has consequences — Fortune 50, EU institutions, organizational turnarounds. Trained as an aerospace engineer and a commercial pilot, he learned early that good thinking only matters if it holds up under pressure, with incomplete information, on a deadline. That is still how he works.
He has spent years inside AI development and governance, engaging directly with the technology, the people building it, and the institutions trying to govern it across very different political contexts. He has sat in UN and EU regulatory working groups on emerging technologies. His view of AI is simple: it is a powerful tool, and what it does to the world depends on who shapes the rules around it and whether those rules are actually enforceable.
He has worked across enough cultures and contexts — Asian policymakers, African entrepreneurs, international negotiating rooms — to know that the assumptions that break coordination are usually the ones nobody named out loud.
He is a father of two working because we do not inherit the world from our parents, we borrow it from our children.
The gap is rarely vision — it’s the infrastructure that makes it work.
Benoît Larrouturou
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