Bertrand Monthubert

Chairman - CNIG, Ekitia, OPenIG - GPAI expert

AI Wonk contributor

Bertrand Monthubert is a mathematician, a former university president of the University of Toulouse, and an architect of France’s higher education and research strategies. Known for co-founding the “Sauvons la recherche” movement and as director of the “Atypie-Friendly” university programme, he chairs several organisations devoted to the development of data and AI: the National Council for Geolocalised Information, Ekitia, and OpenIG. He has been a GPAI expert since its creation and co-chaired the Data Governance working group.

Bertrand Monthubert's publications

Intergovernmental

Rethinking AI data: From scraping to sustainable and ethical data sharing

AI training data is scarce despite abundance. VIADUCT explores ethical data sharing, scraping limits, copyright, GDPR, trust and fairness for sustainable AI ecosystems.

March 31, 2026 — 6 min read

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