Recent media appearances and publications
Media
Interview with Susanne Courtney (January 2025). Bridging the world’s research and data divide. News Decoder.
Interview with Marcus Nield (December 2024). How AI is Tackling Climate Change. Resilience: The Global Adaptation Podcast.
Fournier-Tombs, E (November 2024). An Ethical Grey Zone: AI Agents in Political Deliberation. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
Interview with Rorry Daniels, Asia Society. Digital Governance in the Age of AI. (October 2024).
Fournier-Tombs, E (September 2024). Canada’s 2025 G7 Presidency: A Focus on Measuring AI Risks and Climate Action? Policy Options.
Science Talks: Insights on Artificial Intelligence and climate action with Eleonore Fournier-Tombs (July 2024). United Nations University EHS.
Fournier-Tombs, E (2024, June 27). Five ways local AI ecosystems can foster climate action. United Nations University Blog.
Interview with Simone Roche, We are Power Podcast – United Kingdom (June 2024).
Publications
Fournier-Tombs E, Siddiqui M, Ham A. “AI for Human and Planetary Wellbeing: Five Pathways for AI for Good." AI for Good Flagship Report. Joint Report by ITU and UNU. July 2025.
Leone A, Deng A, Fowler J, Satria Bela M G, Benzecry R, Fournier-Tombs E. The AI Competitive Risk Index: Monitoring AI Risk through Corporate Competitive Dynamics. Working Paper. LSE and UNU. May 2025.
Tombs N, Palmer I, Paulo M, Lin A, Leung V, Fournier-Tombs E. Centers of Excellence on AI in Caribbean SIDS. UNU Working Paper. January 2025.
Fournier-Tombs E, Raghunath P, Lee JH, Yang Min. “AI and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Southeast Asia”. United Nations University Institute in Macau; produced for UN Women. May 2024.
Mutangaduru-Yeswa C, Fournier-Tombs E, Kandemir M. « Diversity Among Peacekeepers : Who is Involved in United Nations Peace Operations and Why does it Matter? » UNU CPR Working Paper. April 2024.
Philippe de Wilde, Payal Arora, Fernando Buarque, Yik Chan Chin, Mamello Thinyane, Stinckwich Serge, Fournier-Tombs Eleonore and Marwala Tshilidzi. Recommendations on the Use of Synthetic Data to Train AI Models: UNU Centre, UNU-CPR, UNU Macau, 2024.
Fournier-Tombs E, Albrecht A, Brubaker R. “Disinformation and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa: Security implications of AI-altered information environments.” UNU Centre for Policy Research Report. February 2024.
Fournier-Tombs, E, Brubaker R, Albrecht E. “AI-Powered Disinformation and Conflict”. UNU Centre for Policy Research Policy Brief. September 2023.
Fournier-Tombs E (2023). “Local transplantation, adaptation and creation of AI models for public health policy”. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. Special topic: A digitally-enabled, science-based global pandemic preparedness and response scheme: how ready are we for the next pandemic?
Fournier-Tombs E, Mc Hardy J (2023). “A medical ethics framework for conversational artificial intelligence.” Paper commissioned by WHO for special issue on Chatbots and COVID-19. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Fournier-Tombs E, JeongHyun Lee, Arthtit Suriyawongkul, Preeti Raghunath, Matthew Dailey, Joyee Chatterjee, Philippe Doneys, Wanchanok Suthorn, Sirayuth Thongprasert, Kris Villanueva and Febroza Belda (2023). “Gender-sensitive AI Policy in Southeast Asia”. United Nations University Institute in Macau; produced for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
Contributing author (2022). “From big data to better decisions”. In: United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022. Interagency Secretariat of the International Strategy for Risk Reduction (UNDRR-ISDR).
Fournier-Tombs E (2021). “Towards a United Nations Regulation for Artificial Intelligence”. Big Data and Society.
Fournier-Tombs E and MacKenzie M (2021). “Big Data and Democratic Speech: Predicting Deliberative Quality using Machine Learning Techniques”. Methodological Innovations.
Tombs N and Fournier-Tombs E (2020). “Ambiguity in Authenticity of Top-level Coronavirus-Related Domains”. Harvard Misinformation Review.