Anne-Laure Fayard is an Associate Professor in Innovation, Design and Organizational Studies at NYU. As Faculty Advisor to the Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace and Design for America of NYU, she is mentoring students’ teams and ventures in particular in the fields of social innovation and sustainability. She is an ethnographer studying collaboration, innovation and technology. She is passionate about human-centered design, which she researches, teaches and practices).  Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as Harvard Business Review and highlighted in the New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist and The Guardian. Prior to joining NYU, Anne-Laure was a faculty member at INSEAD Business School in Singapore and France. She was also Visiting Scholar at Imperial College Business School in London. In fall 2021, she will be taking a leave of absence from NYU to become the ERA Chair Professor in Social Innovation at NOVA School of Business and Economics in Lisbon.