Solange Ghernaouti

Solange Ghernaouti is a professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and an international expert on cybersecurity and cyberdefence. She regularly collaborates with various United Nations, European and government institutions as well as with private corporations.

Solange Ghernaouti was the first woman professor at the HEC Lausanne faculty in 1987 and heads the Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory and Research Group (SCARG) that she created, and the Complexity Sciences Research Group. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science and Telecommunications at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University (later merged into Sorbonne University) under the supervision of professor Guy Pujolle. She is a former auditor of the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale, a member of the (SATW) and a member of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO.

She is the author of numerous technical and popular books and scientific publications on the subjects of telecommunications, the control of computer risks, computer crime and cyberpower and digital humanities. Since 2018, she has regularly kept a blog on the ''Le Temps'' newspaper website where she publishes various articles about cybersecurity and the impact of digital and artificial intelligence on society.

A technico-economic and political prospective analyst, she regularly appears in the media (RTS, France Culture, RTBF and RFI, among others) and gives conferences on the five continents.

Solange Ghernaouti was also president of various associations such as the Erna Hamburger Foundation from 2012 to 2017 as well as the Social Commission of the University of Lausanne from 2006 to 2016.

In 2020, she published fables of the digital era as well as highly noticed articles on the Swiss contact tracing application. Provided by Wikipedia