Emmanuelle Walkowiak

Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, RMIT

Dr. Walkowiak has 20 years' experience as an Economist studying how the rapid adoption of technologies drives the transformation of work and organizations. She is a Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT and a research affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Her current research analyses the impact of the digital transformation on the future of work and inclusion. More specifically, she focuses on the quality of working life of workers of platforms, neurodiversity and the digital transformation of workplaces, inclusion/exclusion and AI, and mitigation of AI risks at work. In September 2023, she has launched the FLOW-GenAI (for Future of Labour, Organisation and Work with GenAI) initiative at RMIT which is focused on the changing nature of work with Generative AI. Emmanuelle has a strong international background and has worked in the US, the UK, and France. Emmanuelle was the principal investigator of several research projects in France and Europe (project COI-COSA on computerisation, organisation and IT; Evaluation of the efficiency of short-time work in France). She was awarded a PhD in Economics by the University Paris IX-Dauphine (France) in 2005. She was the recipient of the Robert Solow's award from the Centre Cournot for Economic Research for a research visit at Princeton University.