Christine Choirat

Head of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), where her team develops secure infrastructures for the analysis of sensitive administrative data in support of evidence-based public policy. Her team developed and runs Lomas, Switzerland’s first operational differential-privacy platform, allowing policymakers and researchers to generate insights while preserving individual confidentiality. The team’s work also contributes to United Nations working groups on privacy-enhancing technologies and responsible artificial intelligence.She previously served as Chief Innovation Officer at the Swiss Data Science Center and as Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva. Earlier, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she designed large-scale data platforms supporting research that informed environmental and health regulations.