AI & Governance
Created in 2026, the AI & Governance practice supports public and private organisations — government bodies, international organisations, large corporates and companies in regulated sectors — in deploying artificial intelligence and governing their data. It is led by Sami Mhidia, the firm’s expert partner.
Expert partner — AI, data and governance — Sami Mhidia
Architecture and hosting choices consistent with sovereignty requirements: data localisation, control over technical dependencies, reversibility of contracts. Regulatory constraints are addressed at the design stage, not discovered at acceptance testing.
Every answer a system produces is tied back to the documents it rests on. Traceability is not an audit log bolted on afterwards: it determines whether a system is usable in an administrative setting, where every decision must be justifiable.
A case file is not simply compliant or non-compliant: it is incomplete, awaiting an opinion, disputed. The systems we design make these states explicit rather than forcing a binary decision the case officer will then have to undo.
Automation prepares the decision, it does not take it. Validation paths, escalation thresholds and lines of responsibility are defined with the operational teams before any development begins.
Processing of administrative corpora in French and Arabic, scanned documents included. Bilingualism is not a convenience: it determines whether a tool is genuinely usable within the Moroccan administration.
Our work is centred on France and Morocco, two markets we know in depth institutionally and in regulatory terms.
In-depth knowledge of the Paris institutional landscape, central administrations, local authorities and regulatory bodies. Experience of legislative processes.
An institutional network and command of the Moroccan regulatory environment.
Public affairs and advocacy for NGOs, thought leadership, and introductions to institutional counterparts.
Beyond that, engagements with a European, African or Mediterranean dimension, in partnership with specialised international organisations.
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A regulatory file, an institutional relationship, a market entry project?
