About
Antoine Ferrère is a Visiting Senior Fellow in LSE's Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. He is co-founder and President of the Behavioral AI Institute, which studies how AI affects human behaviour, decisions and outcomes, and Founder and CEO of lumenx.ai, where he develops conversational AI tools for understanding people and organisations. Previously, Antoine was Global Head of Behavioral & Data Science at Novartis, where he led applied behavioural science and organisational research, including large-scale field experiments.
His work has addressed psychological safety, ethical conduct and the development of behavioural science capabilities in organisations, with publications in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. He is an alumnus of the first cohort of LSE’s Executive MSc in Behavioural Science, where he won the Brian Abel-Smith academic prize.
Antoine's research interests center on two related questions: how conversational AI can be used to measure psychological and behavioural constructs reliably, and how AI changes people’s experience of work. These interests include judgment, skills, autonomy, wellbeing and relationships within teams. His work connects behavioural science with organisational practice, with an emphasis on measurement and research in real-world settings.
Current appointment: November 2026 - October 2029
Research
Here is a list of publications co-authored by Antoine:
- Economides, M., Sacher, P. M., Salzer, S., Abellar, A. M., Tsim, F., & Ferrère, A. (2026). Psychological competence as a missing dimension in AI evaluation. arXiv [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.08285;
- Ferrère, A., Rider, C., Renerte, B., & Edmondson, A. C. (2022). Fostering ethical conduct through psychological safety. MIT Sloan Management Review.
- Martin, S., & Ferrere, A. (2017). Building behavioral science capability in your company. Harvard Business Review.
- Rider, C., Ferrère, A., Belovai, Z., Guadalupe, M., & Englmaier, F. (2023). Proven tactics for improving teams’ psychological safety. MIT Sloan Management Review.
- Sacher, P. M., Michie, S., Hauser, O. P., Ferrère, A., Salzer, S., Rodger, A., Schaich Borg, J., Pogrebna, G., & Murphy, S. A. (2026). The missing discipline in AI: a call for behavioural science. Wellcome Open Research, 11, 152 (Version 2; Open Letter). https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.25922.2