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Imen El Karoui

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Data and AI director at Kering
📍 Paris, Île-de-France, France

Imen El Karoui is the Data and AI Director at Kering, where she leads five teams in transforming the luxury groups use of data and defining its AI strategy. Holding a PhD in cognitive science from Pierre and Marie Curie University, she specializes in creating and managing diverse teams to solve complex problems.

Outside of work, Imen is a self-described "big food lover" who enjoys exploring the restaurants and pastry shops of Paris. She spends a lot of her free time with her two young daughters and is passionate about diversity and inclusion, a topic she has actively worked on at Kering.

Interesting fact: Her PhD research focused on understanding how the human brain interprets what it perceives, giving her a unique foundation in cognitive science for her AI work.

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Current Role
Data and AI director
Location
Paris, Île-de-France, France
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AI in Luxury Retail
Leads the AI and data strategy for Kering, home to brands like Gucci and Saint Laurent, to reinvent processes and accelerate the group's transformation.
Building Data Teams
Passionate about creating and managing diverse teams of data scientists and analysts, growing her leadership from a small team to over 50 people.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Data and AI director
Kering
10-2022 - 9-2025
Data intelligence Director
Kering
1-2019 - 11-2022
Head of AI factory
Kering
1-2016 - 1-2019
Chief Data Scientist
Kernix
4-2015 - 1-2016
Data scientist
Kernix
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Education
2007 - 2011
Master's degree
Ecole Normale Supérieure
2011 - 2015
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Pierre and Marie Curie University
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