As Head of the Emerging Digital Technologies unit within the Science, Technology, and Innovation Directorate at the OECD, Elizabeth Thomas-Raynaud oversees policy activities under the OECD Digital Policy Committee on emerging digital technology topics, such as quantum technologies, and leads the Global Forum on Technology (GFTech).
Ms Thomas-Raynaud, a dual citizen of Canada and France, has held leadership positions in the intersecting fields of digital and technology policy, facilitating multistakeholder and international cooperation for over two decades. Ms Thomas-Raynaud joined OECD in August 2020 as Head of Secretariat for Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), and in 2023 was tasked with setting up GFTech, OECD’s initiative to create a venue for regular in-depth multistakeholder and global dialogue to foresee and get ahead of long-term opportunities and risks presented by technology.
Prior to the OECD, Ms Thomas-Raynaud was the Executive in charge of digital economy policy at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Director of the Business Action to Support the Information Society initiative (ICC BASIS), leading policy development, consensus building among members from 120 countries, and representation in UN and its agencies, G20, OECD, APEC, ICANN and other multistakeholder forums, on issues across the digital policy spectrum, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and digital trade.
In 2019, Ms Thomas-Raynaud completed an executive programme with MIT Sloan and CSAIL on Artificial Intelligence. She holds a Master of Arts degree from City, University of London (UK) and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia (Canada).
