"At the crucial junctures—the moments of decision-making and agenda-setting—we make sure that there’s an openness to citizens."
Dedicated to reimagining democracy as a system that truly empowers people, Hélène Landemore is a political philosopher and Professor at Yale University. As founder of Yale’s Citizens’ Assemblies research program and a Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI, she blends deep theoretical insight with practical innovation.
Landemore challenges traditional electoral democracy by arguing for a more inclusive, deliberative model—one that better captures collective intelligence and democratic reason. Her work, including advising OpenAI’s Democratic Inputs to AI program, explores how democratic institutions can become more stable, representative, and capable of addressing today’s complex political and technological challenges.
"Hélène Landemore argues for a vision of democracy that is more faithful to popular rule, more likely to tap into democratic reason, and more stable and durable than electoral democracy." — Erica Yu, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
