Marie Sophie Müller has always been keen on building bridges between people and ideas to facilitate new partnerships and achieve better societal outcomes. Before joining GESDA, Marie Sophie was Project and Partnership Manager at EPFL’s Center for Digital Trust. She facilitated technology transfer from academia to the public and private sectors to enhance trust in the digital world, including the fields of AI, cloud computing and privacy-enhancing technologies.

Prior, both as an independent consultant and in her positions with the World Economic Forum, Marie Sophie conducted research on emerging trends and global risks and translated them into insights for foresight reports, into action-oriented agendas for high-level events or into multistakeholder projects. Versatile and curious, Marie Sophie has worked on a variety of topics, including cybersecurity, the future of democracy, humanitarian cooperation, water security as well as regional affairs concerning Europe, Russia, and Latin America.

Marie Sophie holds a M.A. in International Politics and Peace Research from the University of Tübingen, as well as a B.A. in Political Science and Russian from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. She also studied in Moscow, Lausanne and Lyon.