Véronique is a professor at the Faculty of Law at Laval University (Quebec, Canada), where she holds the UNESCO Chair on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. A graduate of University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she has been teaching international law for culture and international economic law since 2006. She is co-responsible for the Arts, Media and Cultural Diversity axis of the Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital (OBVIA). She is also co-scientific director of Innovations et Implications sociétales of the IVADO Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium. From 2003 to 2005, Véronique was an associate expert in UNESCO’s division of cultural policies during the negotiations of the 2005 Convention. In 2008, she co-foundedthe International Network of Jurists for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (RIJDEC) and has since conducted several studies with members of this network. In recent years, she has collaborated with UNESCO, the International Organization of La Francophonie, as well as a number of ministries and agencies in Quebec, Canada and other States party to the 2005 Convention. Her most recent research and publications focus on the treatment of cultural goods and services in trade agreements, the preservation of the diversity of cultural expressions in in the digital environment, the impact of AI on the discoverability of national and local content, and the cultural dimension of sustainable development.