Nicolas Moës

Nicolas Moës is an economist focused on the impact of general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) on geopolitics, economics, and industry. He is the executive director at The Future Society, where he leads management, strategy, and stakeholder engagement. He previously studied and monitored European developments in the legislative framework surrounding AI, and he was active in drafting and building enforcement mechanisms for the EU AI Act. Moës is also involved in AI standardization efforts as a Belgian representative to the International Standardisation Organization’s AI subcommittee (SC 42) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CEN-CENELEC) JTC 21 committee on artificial intelligence. He is an expert at the OECD's AI Policy Observatory in the working groups on AI incidents and on risk and accountability. Prior to joining The Future Society, he worked at Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic policy think tank, on EU technology, AI, and innovation strategies. His research addresses the impact of AI and automation, global trade and investments, EU-China relations, and transatlantic partnerships. Moës completed his M.Phil. in economics at the University of Oxford, with a thesis on institutional engineering for resolving the tragedy of the commons in global contexts.