Etienne GRASS

Bio

Étienne Grass is the Global Chief AI Officer at Capgemini Invent, an essayist, and a former senior French civil servant. He is a columnist for the newspaper Les Echos. A specialist in health issues and organizational transformations related to AI, he teaches at Sciences Po Paris. A graduate of the École nationale d'administration (ENA) and a member of the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty (2007–2009) and Chief of Staff to the Minister for Women’s Rights, Cities, Youth, and Sports (2012–2014). He is the author of several works, including L'Europe sociale (La Documentation française, 2013), Les Inégalités de santé (Presses de Sciences Po, 2016), and Génération réenchantée (Calmann-Lévy, 2016). Since November 2017, Étienne Grass has been with the Capgemini Group. He led the Citizen Services teams and later oversaw the group’s sovereign cloud project (“BLEU”). He served as CEO of Capgemini Invent in France from 2023 to 2025. Since July 1, 2025, he has been leading the group’s AI activities at the global level.