Stephan-Eloïse Gras is an entrepreneur and researcher, and currently the Executive Director of Digital Africa, a €130M initiative and fund launched in 2018 by President Emmanuel Macron to support African digital entrepreneurs in designing and scaling digital innovations for the real economy.
Previously, she co-founded Africa 4 Tech and led the strategic development in Africa of . Open Classrooms. She holds a PhD in communication sciences and philosophy. Her PhD thesis Her PhD thesis traces the emergence of the first AI models through the analysis of a music recommendation algorithm acquired by Spotify. music recommendation algorithm acquired by Spotify.