Biography
After graduating from HEC Montreal, La Sorbonne and the University Dauphine with degrees in finance and economics, Marie Mawad became a journalist. She has worked for almost 15 years in French and international media, including at Bloomberg and Reuters. Since 2019, she has devoted herself to the deployment of the Financial Times' new digital media, Sifted, as a journalist and strategy advisor. With dual French and Canadian nationality, she has taught at Sciences Po's School of Journalism since 2017.
Marie Mawad is specialised in the study of technological breakthroughs and in anticipating their economic, political and social impacts. The systemic analysis of innovation is one of her favourite topics and she regularly takes part in international conferences on the subject as well as juries of startup competitions.
