Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye is Associate Professor at Imperial College London. Currently he is a Special Adviser on AI and Data Protection to European Commission Justice Commissioner Reynders and a Parliament-appointed expert to the Belgian Data Protection Agency. In 2018-2019, he was a Special Adviser to European Commissioner Vestager for who he co-authored the Competition policy for the digital era report.

His research has been published in Science and Nature Communications and has received a lot of media attention (BBC, CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, etc.). His work on the shortcomings of anonymization has appeared in reports of the World Economic Forum, the FTC, the European Commission, and the OECD. Yves-Alexandre worked for the Boston Consulting Group and acted as an expert for both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations. He obtained his PhD from MIT in 2015 and obtained, over a 6-year period, an M.Sc. from UCLouvain in Applied Mathematics, an MSc (Centralien) from École Centrale Paris, an MSc from KU Leuven in Mathematical Engineering, as well as his BSc in engineering from UCLouvain.