Livia Holden

Livia Holden is Directrice de Recherche at the CNRS and is affiliated with University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, VinUniversity, Royal Anthropological Institute of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Maison Française d’Oxford.

Her research advances a distinctive interdisciplinary agenda at the intersection of cultural expertise, AI governance, and institutional transformation. Drawing on over three decades of ethnographic fieldwork in South Asia and Europe, she has developed the concept of cultural expertise as a framework for integrating context-sensitive knowledge into legal and policy decision-making.

Building on this foundation, her recent work focuses on the implications of artificial intelligence for legal systems, particularly in relation to data governance, algorithmic accountability, and the translation of culturally embedded knowledge into computational environments. She is the founder of the CULTEXP platform, which combines open-access legal resources with AI-driven tools for ethical data processing, including treatment of personal data aligned with European regulatory standards.

She has secured competitive funding from leading international bodies, including the European Research Council (ERC), and her projects have been recognised for their strong potential to generate innovation in legal technology and governance.