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