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Albert Meige

Associate Director

France

Shifting perception to explore and understand the world

Albert Meige

Education

MBA
HEC Paris Business School
PhD in theoretical & numerical physics
Australian National University
Telecom Engineering degree

Past Experience

Presans
Founder & CEO
Ministry of Higher Education & Research
Advisor to the Minister
HEC Paris business school
Executive Program Director
Institut Mines-Telecom
Executive MBA Program Director
Ecole Polytechnique
Research Fellow

Albert Meige

Albert Meige has been an entrepreneur since his teenage years when he started selling magic shows. He is the founder of Presans, a startup he sold to the strategy consulting firm Arthur D. Little in 2020, and of which he is now Associate Director. Albert has been an Academic Director at HEC Paris and Mines-Telecom Institute. Trained as a Telecom Engineer, he holds a PhD in Computational Physics from the Australian National University and an MBA from HEC Paris Business School. In 2008, the French École Polytechnique awarded him its Innovation Prize. He is the author of many books and publications on innovation and digital transformation, over a dozen peer-reviewed academic articles, two patents, as well as the ministerial report “La Formation de l’Esprit Entrepreneur“ (2018). Albert is an ultra-trail runner and a seasoned photographer. He can solve a Rubik's Cube in less than fifty seconds and loves (urban) exploration…
 

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Albert Meige

Albert Meige has been an entrepreneur since his teenage years when he started selling magic shows. He is the founder of Presans, a startup he sold to the strategy consulting firm Arthur D. Little in 2020, and of which he is now Associate Director. Albert has been an Academic Director at HEC Paris and Mines-Telecom Institute. Trained as a Telecom Engineer, he holds a PhD in Computational Physics from the Australian National University and an MBA from HEC Paris Business School. In 2008, the French École Polytechnique awarded him its Innovation Prize. He is the author of many books and publications on innovation and digital transformation, over a dozen peer-reviewed academic articles, two patents, as well as the ministerial report “La Formation de l’Esprit Entrepreneur“ (2018). Albert is an ultra-trail runner and a seasoned photographer. He can solve a Rubik's Cube in less than fifty seconds and loves (urban) exploration…
 

Adapting to an uncertain future
Adapting to an uncertain future
Mitigation gets most of the big headlines in the global discourse on the changing climate. However, no matter how successful — or not — the world is at mitigating global warming, many of the impacts of climate change are already underway and will greatly affect our future.
Find out more
We’re doomed, now what?
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Finding the way through climate change adaptation technologies in an uncertain future
Find out more
Be careful out there
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By now, business executives are well aware that using artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI (GenAI) such as ChatGPT, brings with it certain risks as well as benefits. Apart from the commonly cited existential risk of a future artificial general intelligence posing a threat to mankind, there are plenty of less severe but more likely risks. Those that most people have read about already are possible biases in GenAI’s outputs, as well as its propensity to “hallucinate” on occasion.
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More About Albert
  • MBA
    HEC Paris Business School
  • PhD in theoretical & numerical physics
    Australian National University
  • Telecom Engineering degree
  • Presans
    Founder & CEO
  • Ministry of Higher Education & Research
    Advisor to the Minister
  • HEC Paris business school
    Executive Program Director
  • Institut Mines-Telecom
    Executive MBA Program Director
  • Ecole Polytechnique
    Research Fellow