Jessica Galissaire

Jessica Galissaire is Senior Policy Researcher in interface’s Strengthening the Digital Public Sphere and Platform Regulation programme. Her research focuses on the protection of minors in digital environments. This includes mapping and analysing current and emerging risks to minors in digital spaces, and identifying regulatory compliance requirements and gaps in existing protections.

Before joining interface in June 2025, she was Studies and Partnerships Manager at Paris-based think tank Renaissance Numérique (2020-2025), where she conducted research and produced policy advice on a wide range of topics dealing with the digital transformation and its impact on society and citizens. She has published works on facial recognition technologies and their regulation in the EU, health data and the digitalisation of healthcare, the EU’s digital policy and regulatory landscape, and the protection of minors and age assurance online.

Jessica has spoken at various conferences and events, including a symposium on children’s rights organised at the French National Assembly, the GenerationAI Conference 2024 and side events organised as part of the Paris AI Action Summit. She has appeared in interviews on TV and shared advice during several parliamentary hearings and private meetings with parliamentarians.

Jessica holds an M.A. in International Relations and a B.A. in Political Science from Sciences Po Bordeaux. She has also studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Institute for Advanced International Studies of Université Laval, Québec.

From 2017 to 2020, she experienced working in the “Brussels bubble” during her time as Research Project Manager at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), where she contributed to projects in the digital, energy and transportation sectors, in collaboration with top-level academics, industry players and policy makers from across Europe. Earlier in her carrier, she worked for various NGOs, including No Peace Without Justice in Brussels and the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect in New York.