Stephanie Lehuger · Humanist Philosopher & Tech Entrepreneur
Women in Innovation Movers & Makers (2026)100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics (2025)
I build AI for social impact — and I shape the ethics behind it.
Founding-team member at 4 startups, published philosopher, and keynote speaker.
A decade launching and scaling AI in high-growth tech — most recently Rogervoice's US launch, where AI captions calls in real time so deaf and hard-of-hearing people can use the phone like anyone else.
I don't just think about responsible AI — I build with it.
AI for good4× startup founding team
Rogervoice — Country Manager, US
Defined the US go-to-market strategy and built the US operation and team for an AI captioning app for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
Actiondesk — Head of Operations & Growth (Founding Team)
Built US operations from the ground up — through Y Combinator, a $4M raise, and an acquisition by Datadog.
Bayes Impact — Chief of Staff (Founding Team)
Y Combinator-backed AI career coach for jobseekers — built the French entity operations from zero. Laureate of La France s'engage, awarded personally by French President Hollande himself.
Master Art Index — Chief of Staff & AI Strategy Lead (Founding Team)
Took an AI art-valuation platform from vision to shipped product, recruiting the founding team.
Touch & Sell — Chief Product Officer (Founding Team)
Recruited and led the engineering and customer-success organisations, CTO included, for a product that landed on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50.
European Commission — AI Expert Evaluator
Evaluated deep-tech and AI projects seeking Europe funds.
United Nations — New York
Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services — the UN's own watchdog.
United Nations — Rome
World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian organisation.
Unis-Cité — Head of Strategy & Operations
Architected and scaled a $5.5M portfolio of social-impact programmes for the NGO that pioneered France's national civic service.
Published books
Awards
- Movers & Makers Awards — Women in Innovation (2026)
- 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics — Women in AI Ethics (2025)
- Women in Business Awards — Globee Business Awards (2023)
- La France s'engage — With Bayes Impact · presented by President Hollande (2016)
- Publicis90 Prize — With Bayes Impact · Viva Technology (2016)
- Technology Fast 50 — With Touch & Sell · Deloitte (2015)
- Hack the Drone — Parrot, Redbird, the French Air Force and Engie (2015)
Studies
Three masters, three fields
Master of Business Administration (Grande École), Social entrepreneurshipESSEC
Master of Public Policy and AdministrationENA
Master of Philosophy (Valedictorian)Université de Reims
Also trained in
Computer scienceÉcole 42
FinanceBoston University
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Keynotes & seminars
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How To Develop Critical Thinking Skills In The Age Of AI
Ethics & societal impact of technology
- Can Machines Think?
- Is Tech Morally Neutral?
- Does AI Alter the Truth?
- Are Biases in Algorithms Inevitable?
- Can Everyone Be Right? The Limits of Truth in a World of Opinions
- Should There Be a Limit to How Technology Redefines What It Means to Be Human?
- Can We Ethically Judge a Complex Technological Innovation?
- How Technology Changes Our Personal Identity
- Should We Be Polite with ChatGPT?
Other thought-provoking topics
- How To Find Meaning In Work
- Is Authenticity at Work Realistic?
- How We Become Who We Are
- Can We Live Without Religion or Doctrine?
- Does the World Make Sense?
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Emmanuel BoursinCOO, Iconic Art
Paul DuanFounder, Bayes Impact
Jonathan ParisotCo-Founder & CEO, Actiondesk (acquired by Datadog) — now Product Leader at Datadog
Roman Klimov, PhDFounding AI Engineer
Siwar Achach BoubayaProduct Manager
Dr. Sophie DegâtLecturer, Wharton / The Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan GrizouFractional AI Consultant
Lucie PortmannDirector of Learning and Development, BPCE Assurances
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