Summary
Jean Delahousse is an ontologist and AI strategist based in Paris with over three decades of experience structuring knowledge and nine years focused on knowledge graphs for legal, cultural heritage, and health sectors. He founded and led Mondeca to build ontology management and semantic annotation products, and today works independently providing consulting and training on semantic web, taxonomies, OpenData and ontology alignment. Jean combines entrepreneurial product leadership with deep technical expertise in knowledge representation, having also founded and exited a software company earlier in his career. His work bridges academic rigor and practical deployment, helping organizations make their data interoperable and AI-ready. Notably, he brings a rare mix of long-term industry perspective and hands-on ontology engineering that accelerates domain-specific AI adoption.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
DEUG, DEUG at Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II)
INALCO, institut langues et civilisations orientales
Bac C, Bac C at Lycée Louis Pasteur, Lille
MBA, MBA at ESCP-EAP
High School graduation, High School graduation at Herbert Hoover High School, Glendale, CA
English, French