As a previous position, he was senior industrial advisor to the former French President François Hollande, where he contributed to the definition and implementation of major orientations and policies for industry transformation at national level. Sébastien Massart also served as technical advisor for industrial affairs in the private office of the French Minister of Defence, Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Sébastien began his career at Deloitte Consulting in Paris. He then became French State civil servant, head of economic development at regional level in Languedoc-Roussillon area. He was then appointed senior adviser to the Chairman of the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF), in charge of strategic planning. He was involved in European negotiations regarding the regulation of derivatives markets. He then joined the State Shareholding Agency (APE) at the French Ministry for Economy, where he contributed to French-German merger between KMW and Nexter.

Sébastien Massart holds an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique and is a graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure (PSL) in Philosophy and Theoretical Physics. He currently teaches at SciencesPo Paris. He published several papers about innovation and virtual universes, notably: “Shaping the Unknown with Virtual Universes – the New Fuel for Innovation” (Global Innovation Index Report, 2020), “From platform-company to spherical institution” (Métamorphoses des relations Etat-Entreprise, Manucius, 2020). He was also vice-chairman of the Tech’In France digital association until June 2021.