Claire WAAST-RICHARD, PhD, began her career at IBM where she carried out work in different Data Driven fields, today called Artificial Intelligence. She managed teams in Europe, USA and worked closely with China.

In 2005, she joined EDF R&D to apply computer-science solutions for customers’ behavior analysis. Mid-2009, she became the R&D Chief of Staff, and in 2011 she led the R&D Information Technology Program as Chief Information Officer.

Mid-2016, she moved to Enedis as Deputy Chief Information Officer. Since mid-2021, she drive, as Head of Data & Digital, the Enedis Digital Factory to scale up the Data transformation.