Trained in both humanities and engineering, Clément Renaud owns a phD in Economics and Management from ParisTech Telecom. He wrote his first computer program in 1995, spent a decade in China, and explores with passion the ways digital technology transforms our representation of the world.

His favourite research topics includes design of complex systems, geography of technology, data visualisation, anthropology of writing technics, and the history of computing in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta. He has taught and lectured in various universities and design schools such as EPFL, Harvard GSD, ECAL, Paris Sorbonne, Goldsmiths, Fudan University, ENS de Lyon, Heidelberg University, EM Lyon, ENSSIB.