Political Economy and Geopolitics of AI Regulation

Lieu : Salle 3.216 - Campus Grand Paris & en ligne 
Horaire : 12h-13h30

Intervenante : Annabelle Gawer, Professor of Digital Economy at Surrey Business School.

A world-class academic pioneer in platform strategy, Prof. Annabelle Gawer is a thought leader and expert advisor on the business of digital platforms and platform-based innovation ecosystems. Professor Gawer was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023. Awarded the Clarivate Highly-Cited Researcher Award in 2025, 2023, and 2022, she was in 2025 the most cited female academic in the UK in Economics and Business. The author of over 60 articles and 4 books on digital platforms including The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power with M Cusumano (MIT) and D Yoffie (Harvard Business School) (2019) and Platform Leadership with Michael Cusumano, her 2021 study Online Platforms: Economic and Societal Effects (with N Srnicek) was published by the European Parliament. Her Google Scholar profile indicated over 35,000 citations as of January 2026.
Prof Gawer’s research has been featured in The Financial Times (here, here and here), the BBC World Service, the Economist (here and here), The New York Times, the Times, the Wall Street Journal (here, and here), the Washington Post, Forbes, the MIT Sloan Management Review (here and here), Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, Harvard Deusto Business Review and the Harvard Business Review. 
Prof Gawer was appointed an independent digital expert for the UK Competition and Markets Authority from 2023 to 2025 to help ensure fair competition in digital markets. She has advised the European Commission on the regulation of online platforms as an Expert Member of the European Commission’s Observatory of the Online Platform Economy (2018-2021). She has also advised the UK Parliament House of Lords, the UK Government, and the OECD. She regularly consults for major international corporations on platform and ecosystem strategy.
 

In this seminar, we offer a conceptualization of the political economy and geopolitics of AI regulation. Rather than  cataloguing legal updates or debating abstract principles, we identify the underlying forces and strategic dimensions shaping how regulation is designed, contested, and enacted globally. By clarifying the key actors, motivations, and institutional logics at play, we aim to provide executives, policymakers, and technologists with a more actionable lens through which to engage this evolving—and increasingly consequential—terrain.
 

Pour plus d'informations, merci de contacter Margherita Pagani : margherita.pagani@skema.edu