Anne-Laure Fayard is Chaired Professor in Social Innovation at NOVA School of Business and Economics in Lisbon Portugal. She is the founder and coordinator of the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab and the Academic Advisor of the Master’s in Impact Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She is also a Visiting Research Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. 

Anne-Laure is an ethnographer of work, whose interests involve collaboration, technology, innovation and design. In the last 10+ years, she has developed a research stream on social innovation, with a focus on cross-sector collaboration, open social innovation and co-creation and design. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), an M. Phil. in Cognitive Science from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), an M. Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science from La Sorbonne (Paris) and an MA in Philosophy.