Pauline Thomson is Managing Director in Ardian’s Infrastructure Team and Head of Data Science of Ardian. Since joining Ardian in 2011, Pauline has been both driving in investments in infrastructure assets as well as driving Ardian data science and AI strategy since 2019.

She spearheaded the launch of data science to support value creation within investment teams and more recently of Gaia, Ardian's firm-wide, in-house generative AI platform. She was at the forefront of creating Ardian Opta platform supporting investment in renewable energy as well as Ardian AirCarbon, Ardian’s proprietary software platform for measuring airports’ Scope 3 emissions.

On the investment side, she was part of major transactions executed by the infrastructure team, including Hill Top Energy Center in the US, Inwit in Italy, Mila in Iceland, and Verne in the United Kingdom. Pauline Thomson is also Board member of Mila, a leading telecom operator in Iceland and Verne, a pan European data center platform, headquartered in the UK.

Education: Sciences Po Paris Master’s Degree in Politics & Finance