Mathieu Van de Catsije

I'm interested in what happens to companies and markets when most of the work inside them is done by AI.

I explore that question as a doctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen, based in the joint HSG–ETH–Zurich AI Lab, where I study how organisations work when some of their members are AI agents. That has two sides: how people actually collaborate with agents when the stakes are real, and what a firm becomes when most of its work is done by software rather than staff.

Before the PhD I spent two years in strategy at Zurich Insurance, most recently leading a group strategy programme across Asia-Pacific from Singapore. I trained first in mathematics and physics, then in innovation and technology management at Mines Paris PSL and Paris-Dauphine, and I've kept an early habit of not doing things the way everyone else does them.

I also publish The AI Strategy Brief, a fortnightly newsletter that cuts AI down to what matters for business and finance. Away from the desk I run long distances in the mountains and read more manga and bande dessinée than is strictly reasonable.

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Ultra-trail running and long walks; manga and bande dessinée (a habit that once turned into a job at a comics startup); and a standing interest in Asia, in markets, and in explaining complicated things simply.

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