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Francine Bennett is a founder member of the Institute’s Board since 2019.  She also served as Interim Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute from May 2023 – June 2024.

Prior to joining Ada, Francine was VP of Data at Healx, a biotech company which uses AI to find treatments for rare diseases; cofounder of Mastodon C, a data science consultancy that supports local and central government to realise the social and business potential of their data; and was a founding trustee of DataKind UK, which provides data science support to UK charities.

She is also currently a member of the Gambling Commission’s Digital Advisory Board and the Advisory Council of the British Library.

Featured work

Blog

19 December 2023

The Ada Lovelace Institute in 2023

Reflections on the last year and a look ahead to 2024 from Ada’s outgoing Director Carly Kind and Interim Director Fran Bennett

Report

31 August 2023

DNA.I.

Early findings and emerging questions on the use of AI in genomics