Marine Collins Ragnet is Head of Innovation Research at NYU's Peace Research and Education Program (PREP), where she founded and leads the Peace AI initiative. Her work examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping power, sovereignty, and participation, with particular attention to the Global South. She conducts ongoing fieldwork in Malawi, Kenya, the Philippines, and other contexts where communities are negotiating the terms of their own digital futures.
At NYU, Marine teaches "AI and the Global Majority" which invites students to interrogate dominant narratives about AI development and to study community-led alternatives, from indigenous data governance frameworks to participatory data commons. She also teaches in the Philippines, where she works alongside faculty and indigenous elders on AI governance.
Marine came to academic research through a decade in diplomacy and international affairs, advising senior officials across three governments and a multilateral mission. She served in the office of the French Minister for Development, as Advisor at the U.S. Mission to the OECD in Paris, where she worked on technology and economic policy, and as Spokesperson for the EU Advisory Mission in the Central African Republic, where she led anti-disinformation efforts during a fragile period of post conflict transition. These experiences shape how she teaches: she asks students to take seriously the texture of how policy actually gets made, the constraints officials face, and the gap between what gets written in Geneva or Brussels and what unfolds on the ground.
Beyond NYU, Marine is Managing Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Senior Fellow at the Portulans Institute, an OECD AI Expert, and a member of UNESCO's Women4EthicalAI expert group and an advisor to several organizations. Her writing has appeared in Brookings, Oxford, The Diplomat, Le Monde, and other outlets.