Simon Hardy
Founder at AI FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES FORUM
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolSimon Hardy is a founder and AI policy-practitioner based in Brussels with 11 years of experience designing data-driven strategies for governments, EU institutions, and civic initiatives. He builds AI tools focused on amplifying human creativity, preserving truth, and empowering communities, drawing on hands-on roles at Deloitte and BearingPoint where he led AI, data and digital transformation for public services. AIFOD standards committee membership and work with civic organisations like Water Europe and Le Pacifique Records signal a rare blend of technical strategy, policy fluency, and community engagement. Trained in political science and responsible innovation across ULB, Freie Universität Berlin and TU Delft, he combines governance-first thinking with product-minded execution to steer ethically grounded AI deployments.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Political Science and Government, Exchange Student Political Science and Government at Freie Universität BerlinBachelor’s Degree Political Science, Bachelor’s Degree Political Science at Université libre de BruxellesMaster’s Degree European Studies - Specialisation Politics, Master’s Degree European Studies - Specialisation Politics at Institute for European Studies, ULB (IEE-ULB)Responsible Innovation: Building Tomorrow’s Responsible Firms, Responsible Innovation: Building Tomorrow’s Responsible Firms at Delft University of Technology
French, English, German
Github Skills (21)
pagekit9
codeigniter8
vue7
symfony7
php7
rest-api7
scheduler6
cms6
javascript6
nodejs5
crawler5
content-management5
mysql5
instagram5
scraper4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
poltys/Streamlit-Cryptocurrencies-Dashboard
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
poltys/CORDIS-DB-EU-Projects-Scraper
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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