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Context & Chaos expert profile: **Charlotte Ledoux**, Data & AI Governance Consultant / Independent.

Charlotte Ledoux is a freelance Data and AI Governance consultant based in Paris with 10+ years of consulting experience at BearingPoint and Quantmetry, working with clients from startups to major global corporations. She is the author of The Data Governance Playbook - a Substack newsletter with 8,100+ subscribers ranked #13 Rising in Technology - where she publishes practical data governance, AI governance, and data strategy frameworks every two weeks. A LinkedIn Top Voice in AI in France, she also co-organizes the Paris Data Ladies meetup and is a member of Femmes@Numerique, the French government collective promoting women in AI.

## Expertise and background

- **Expertise in:** Data Governance, AI Governance, Data Strategy, Data Literacy, Data Stewardship, Master Data Management, AI Compliance
- **Specialty:** Data & AI Governance Specialist
- **Experience:** 10+ years in data governance and AI governance consulting at BearingPoint and Quantmetry
- **Notable work:** Author of The Data Governance Playbook ebook (complete implementation framework); Moderator, PyData Paris 2025 open-source business panel; 30K+ LinkedIn followers
- **Certifications:** LinkedIn Top Voice in AI (France); Co-organizer, Paris Data Ladies meetup; Member, Femmes@Numerique (French government AI collective)

## Resources

- C&C Issue: [Data Governance vs AI Governance: Why It's the Wrong Battle](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/data-governance-vs-ai-governance-why-its-the-wrong-battle/)
- Article: [Data Governance Has a New Job](https://thedatagovernanceplaybook.substack.com/p/data-governance-has-a-new-job). The role of data governance is shifting from compliance and cataloging to enabling AI systems. Charlotte examines what this means for data teams in practice.
- Article: [Kill the Data Governance Committee](https://thedatagovernanceplaybook.substack.com/p/kill-the-data-governance-committee). A sharp argument for why traditional governance committee structures slow down rather than enable data quality - and what to replace them with.
- All issues: [the full Context & Chaos library](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/)

## Connect with Charlotte Ledoux

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-ledoux-53b43253/
- Substack: https://thedatagovernanceplaybook.substack.com/
- Personal site: https://charlotteledoux.ai/

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