Interview Of The Week

Interview Of The Week: Samuele Ramadori, LawZero

Samuele Ramadori is Co-President and Executive Director at LawZero, a non-profit working on safe-by-design AI recently launched by leading AI expert Yoshua Bengio, who is known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

Ramadori was previously CEO of AI building management scaleup BrainBox AI, a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, which was sold to Trane Technologies,  a leading global HVAC equipment and controls company, in January 2025;

Prior to joining BrainBox AI in 2019, Ramadori held senior operational, investor, and executive roles at private equity firms, including Walter Capital Partners and Brookfield Capital Partners. He has an MBA from the Ivey School of Business as well as degrees in common law and civil law from the University of Ottawa. Ramadori, a participant in the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting Of The New Champions in Tiajin, China, spoke to The Innovator during the conference about the need for a greater focus on AI safety and LawZero’s mission.

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.