ECONOMIST · ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL, PARIS

Guillaume Chevillon

I work on economics, data analytics and
forecasting, and more recently on their
interaction with AI, creativity and the arts.

| Professor of Economics and Data Analytics, ESSEC Business School
| Chair in Cultural Industries, Arts & Creative Technologies (founder and holder)
|Academic Director, Master in Arts Management, Riyadh University of the Arts (with ESSEC)
|Founding Academic Director, ESSEC Institute for AI, Data & Society (2020-26)

The book: algorithmes queers

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Institutional update, september 2026

2015-2026: I developed AI & Data Analytics at ESSEC (Master in Data Sciences & Business Analytics, Bachelor in AI, Data & Management Sciences with CentraleSupélec School of Engineering, Building up research faculty and the ESSEC Institute for AI, Data & Society).

from 2023, I am developing Cultural Economics, Creative Tech, Arts Management, through the Chair in Cultural Industries, Arts & Creative Technologies, the program in AI & Creativity with ENSAPC, and the creation with ESSEC of the College of Cultural Management at the Riyadh University of the Arts.

BOOK

Algorithmes queers

Perturber les technologies, imaginer nos futurs · Éditions B42 · 128 pages · 15 €

At the meeting point of queer theory and algorithmic design lies the possibility of an artificial intelligence that is fluid, cooperative, non-linear and nourished by the potential of error. Algorithms built on deterministic, normative or binary principles are not robust enough to reach their own goals of modelling and prediction. The book proposes a systemic approach, informed by queer theories, for rethinking algorithms and the way we interact with them.

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Festival NOÛS, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 10 April 2026. Round table Imaginaires sous algorithmes.

Collection Culture, Éditions B42. Photo: Éditions B42.

In the press

9 Oct 26

De la langue parfaite aux algorithmes queers · AOC Media

14 Oct 26

Les queers face à la binarité numérique · Zébuline / La Marseillaise

24 Jun 26

Et s’il était temps de penser des algorithmes queers ? · Fisheye Immersive

18 Jun 26

C’est quoi un « algorithme queer » ? · Les Inrockuptibles

13 Jun 26

Pourquoi le « Q » de queer cache une notion plus complexe · Le Nouvel Obs

May 26

« Algorithmes queers » contre « pensée tech bros » ? · Philosophie Magazine

23 Apr 26

La Suite dans les idées · France Culture

2 Apr 26

« Certains artistes transforment notre regard sur les algorithmes » · Le Monde

Talks and readings

17 Nov 26

Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, with the Institut d’études avancées

4 Nov 26

Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing

29 Oct 26

Chroniques Biennale des imaginaires numériques, Aix-en-Provence

19 Oct 26

Festival Pop Philosophie, Marseille

16 Sep 26

Rencontres internationales de la Transformation, Paris

2 Sep 26

École d’été Sciences pour et par la société, Paris-Saclay

10 Apr 26

Festival NOÛS Art × IA, BnF

2 Apr 26

Launch, Librairie La Petite Égypte, Paris

ARTS & CULTURE

Arts, Culture

& Creative Technologies

Since 2023, a growing part of my work concerns the cultural and creative
industries, where artificial intelligence is changing how works are made, found
and paid for. It takes four forms: a chair at ESSEC, a new college in Riyadh, a course
with artists in Cergy, and a role in a national research programme on culture.

The Chair in Cultural Industries, Arts & Creative Technologies

We created the Chair at ESSEC in 2025 with Jean-Noël Tronc. It brings together teaching, research and a community of partners from the cultural and media industries. On the teaching side, I run the Arts, Culture & Tech Lab, a course on contemporary digital culture, from artificial intelligence to immersive technologies, which gives students the tools of cultural analytics and shows them how artists, museums and platforms are redefining the rules. On the research side, the Chair studies creativity under algorithmic recommendation: how platforms that learn from engagement with what they show reshape what gets made, and what cultural policy can do about it, in work developed with colleagues at SDA Bocconi.

The Chair’s site.

Riyadh University of the Arts

ESSEC is helping Riyadh University of the Arts in creating a College of Cultural Management which opened in September 2026. I am the academic director of its Master in Arts Management, which trains the managers of the museums, festivals, performing-arts venues and heritage sites that Saudi Arabia is building, in a programme designed with ESSEC’s faculty.

AI & Creation, with ENSAPC

Since 2023, Jeff Guess (École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy) and I have run a course that brings together about fifteen management students from ESSEC and ten art students from ENSAPC. With an artist in residence, and using generative AI in the production, they make a joint piece that is then shown in art venues and festivals. A text on the first project appeared in Azimuts, the design research journal of the Cité du design, in 2024. The program’s site.

Sands of Self, Centre d’art Ygrec, ENSAPC, Aubervilliers, March 2024. Photo © Objets pointus.

2026

Affinités aléatoires

With Galdric Fleury and Elouan Le Bars. Festival NOÛS, BnF × Fisheye, 11 April 2026, and Cergy Soit, 19–20 September 2026.

2025

mira·anemo·ia·polis

A game designed with Nicolas Gourault and Elouan Le Bars, performed live at Le Bal, Paris, for La Fabrique du Regard #3, 4 June 2025.

2024

Sands of Self

An immersive game made with generative AI, with Mounir Ayache. Ygrec, POUSH (Nord-Est), and 101 Art Design Center, Fuzhou.

Data and metadata for culture: ICCARE

In ICCARE, the national research programme on the cultural and creative industries funded by France 2030, I am one of the facilitators for questions of data and metadata: what cultural institutions record, how it can be shared, and what it allows us to measure.

The book, in art venues

Algorithmes queers was written thinking about artists and is discussed with them: Le Fresnoy, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Lieu Unique in Nantes, the Pop Philosophie festival, the Chroniques des imaginaires numériques biennale. The list of talks is in the book section.

RESEARCH

Research

Econometric theory, with applications to forecasting and statistical learning: long

memory, learning dynamics, and the feedback between agents’ behaviour and the

policies or algorithms that aim to influence it. Applications to macroeconomics,

energy, finance, climate and cultural markets.

Working papers

Working paper · 2026

Endogenous creativity under algorithmic recommendation

Lock-in, refusal, and the welfare value of algorithmic forgetting. Draft in progress.

Working paper · with T. Kurita

Testing temperature controllability

A cointegration approach to climate policy evaluation. arXiv 2307.05818

Essay · SSRN

The Queer Algorithm

The starting point of the book. SSRN 4742138

Recent articles

2026 Towards empirical assessments of controlled cointegrated models with T. Kurita · Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 88(4), 814–833

2023 We modeled long memory with just one lag! with L. Bauwens and S. Laurent · Journal of Econometrics, 236(1)

2020 Probabilistic forecasting of bubbles and flash crashes with A. Banerjee and M. Kratz · The Econometrics Journal, 23(2), 297–315

2020 Robust inference in structural VARs with long-run restrictions with S. Mavroeidis and Z. Zhan · Econometric Theory, 36(1), 86–121

2018 Perpetual learning and apparent long memory with S. Mavroeidis · Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 90, 343–365

2018 Generating univariate fractional integration within a large VAR(1) with A. Hecq and S. Laurent · Journal of Econometrics, 204(1), 54–65

2017 Learning can generate long memory with S. Mavroeidis · Journal of Econometrics, 198(1), 1–9

2017 Robust cointegration testing in the presence of weak trends, with an application to the human origin of global warming Econometric Reviews, 36(5), 514–545

+ Earlier articles

2016 Multistep forecasting in the presence of location shifts International Journal of Forecasting, 32(1), 121–137

2014 Multi-step forecast error corrections International Journal of Forecasting, 30(3), 683–687

2010 Inference in models with adaptive learning with S. Mavroeidis and M. Massmann · Journal of Monetary Economics, 57(3), 341–351

2009 Physical market determinants of the price of crude oil and the market premium with C. Rifflart · Energy Economics, 31(4), 527–549

2009 Multi-step forecasting in emerging economies: an investigation of the South African GDP International Journal of Forecasting, 25(3), 602–628

2007 Direct multi-step estimation and forecasting Journal of Economic Surveys, 21(4), 746–785

2005 Non-parametric direct multi-step estimation for forecasting economic processes with D. F. Hendry · International Journal of Forecasting, 21(2), 201–218

2003–09 Articles in French and OFCE forecasts: Revue française de gestion (2009), Revue de l’OFCE (2005, 2006), reports for the French Senate (2003, 2004), OFCE world economic outlooks 2003–2006.

2015–2026

Data science

at ESSEC

Before the Chair, I spent ten years building the data-science side of ESSEC. Two institutions came out of it.

ESSEC | CentraleSupélec Master in Data Sciences & Business Analytics

I started the programme with Nikos Paragios and co-directed it from its first cohort in 2015 until 2025. It was the first joint master between a business school and an engineering school to be accredited by the French Ministry of Higher Education at master level. Each year it trains 150 to 180 students from about thirty countries in data science, artificial intelligence and their uses in business, through advanced courses and professional projects. QS has ranked it first in Europe and third in the world on average since the ranking began.

A companion programme, the Bachelor in AI, Data & Management Sciences, was designed with CentraleSupélec on the same model. The programme.

ESSEC Institute for AI, Data & Society

I co-founded the Metalab in 2020 and directed it until September 2026. It is the school’s centre for the societal effects of artificial intelligence and data. It develops courses and programmes, supports academic research, federates a community of companies and interested individuals, and takes part in the public debate through the IDEAS student think tank, the press and events such as the Grand Prix AI for Responsible Leadership.

From 2020 to 2022 I also headed the department of Information Systems, Decision Sciences & Statistics. The Institute.

ABOUT

About

I am an econometrician. My work models the passage of time across people and societies: dynamic and persistence effects, the way individual expectations shape our behaviour and the society we collectively form, and the methods we use to forecast it. This led me early on to data science and to machine learning as deployed by social networks and platforms, a large-scale experiment on the effects of algorithms on individuals and societies.

At ESSEC, I co-directed the ESSEC | CentraleSupélec Master in Data Sciences & Business Analytics from its first cohort in 2015 until 2025 (ranked first in Europe and third worldwide by QS over many years) and directed the ESSEC Institute for AI, Data & Society from its creation in 2020 until September 2026.

Since 2023, my work has moved towards cultural economics, creative technologies and arts management: the Chair in Cultural Industries, Arts & Creative Technologies, the AI & Creation programme with ENSAPC, and the College of Cultural Management created with ESSEC at Riyadh University of the Arts.

Degrees
MPhil and DPhil in Economics, University of Oxford.
Master in Engineering, École des Mines de Paris.

Visiting
Brown, Oxford, NYU, Keio, UNSW Sydney,
Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Networks
OECD Network of AI Experts.
Fellow, Institut Louis Bachelier.
ICCARE programme (France 2030), data and metadata.

Before

Head of the Information Systems, Decision Sciences
& Statistics department, ESSEC (2020–2022).
Economist at OFCE (2003–2006).

MEDIA & TEXTS

Media & texts

2026 De la langue parfaite aux algorithmes queers AOC, 9 October.

2026 Disrupting AI: a call for resilient and effective algorithmic governance ESSEC Knowledge, April. In French.

2025 Gouvernement Lecornu, majorité introuvable: la théorie des jeux de John F. Nash en temps réel Libération, 7 October.

2025 « Les artistes sont les mieux placés pour nous inciter à utiliser les IA avec malice » Fisheye Immersive, 5 September.

2025 Intelligence artificielle: une nouvelle forme de créativité émerge, accessible à tous Le Monde, 4 January, with Julien Malaurent. In English.

2023 Pour concevoir une agence de sécurité de l’IA, il faut prévoir son impact sur les comportements humains Le Monde, 15 September.

2022 L’algorithme est un influenceur comme les autres Le Monde, 26 April.

Radio La Suite dans les idées, France Culture, 23 April 2026

+ More articles, interviews and radio

2025 Comment éviter les effets cachés de l’IA sur le travail ? Le Point, 11 May. Also Et si ChatGPT écrivait déjà mieux que nous ?, 20 April, with Nicolas Gaudemet.

2023 Nous ne sommes pas voués à être remplacés par des machines Le Monde, 15 December, with Julien Malaurent. In English.

2023 Navigating algorithm insights into our sexual orientation Openly, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 14 August. See also The algorithmic frontier for LGBTQI+ rights, ESSEC Knowledge.

2022 Le nouvel ambassadeur aux droits LGBT+ peut jouer un rôle crucial dans la réflexion sur les haines en ligne Le Monde, 13 November.

2021 The power of persuading: can and should we regulate AI algorithms? OECD AI Wonk, 11 March.

2018 Et si on réinitialisait les réseaux sociaux ? Libération, 18 September.

Radio

La Suite dans les idées, France Culture, 23 April 2026
Soft Power, France Culture, May 2015. Un jour, une question, France Info, 2014–2016.

NEWS

News

Oct 2026 Review of Algorithmes queers in Zébuline and La Marseillaise. Essay in AOC.

Sep 2026 Handover of the Metalab after six years. The College of Cultural Management opens at Riyadh University of the Arts. Affinités aléatoires screened at Cergy Soit.

Sep–Nov 2026 Book tour: Paris-Saclay, Rencontres internationales de la Transformation, Pop Philosophie, Chroniques – Biennale des imaginaires numériques, Le Fresnoy, Le Lieu Unique.

2026 Towards empirical assessments of controlled cointegrated models, with Takamitsu Kurita, in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

Apr 2026 Algorithmes queers is published on 3 April. Interviews in Le Monde, France Culture, Philosophie Magazine, Le Nouvel Obs, Les Inrockuptibles, Fisheye Immersive.

Sep 2025 Launch of the Chair in Cultural Industries, Arts & Creative Technologies. I join the ICCARE programme (France 2030).

Contact

chevillon@essec.edu

Department of Information Systems, Data Analytics & Operations
ESSEC Business School,
3 avenue Bernard Hirsch, 95021 Cergy-Pontoise, France.

Elsewhere

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ESSEC faculty page

SSRN · arXiv

MacroAnalytics.org

Institutions

Chair in Cultural Industries, Arts & Creative Technologies

ESSEC Institute for AI, Data & Society

Master in Arts Management, Riyadh University of the Arts

AI & Creation, ENSAPC × ESSEC

ICCARE, data and metadata

OECD.AI · Institut Louis Bachelier

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