Jean-Louis Missika is Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Editorial Director of the french Think Tank Terra Nova. From 2008 to 2020, he was Deputy Mayor of Paris, first with mayor Bertrand Delanoë, in charge of innovation, research and universities, then with mayor Anne Hidalgo, in charge of urban planning, architecture, economic development, Greater Paris, and attractiveness. Previously, he created and managed a consulting firm specializing in media and information and communication technologies. He was professor at Sciences Po Paris where he taught the sociology of the media. He is the author of documentaries for television, including interviews with Raymond Aron (Le spectateur engagé, 1981) and with Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger (Le choix de Dieu, 1987). He has published numerous books: in 2022, with Henri Verdier, Le business de la haine, published by Calmann Lévy, where he analyzes the role of social networks in the crisis of democracy ; in 2018, with Pierre Musseau, Des robots dans la ville, published by Tallandier, which studies the impact of the emergence of autonomous vehicles on the organization and governance of cities ; in 2006, La fin de la télévision, published by Le Seuil, where he analyzes the effects of the digital revolution on television and public space, and in 2007, Parler pour gagner, sémiotique des discours de la campagne présidentielle de 2007 (in collaboration with Denis Bertrand and Alexandre Dézé), published by Presses de Sciences Po, where he studies the mutations and effects of the political rhetoric of presidential candidates. He also published on line, in 2019, an essay on The new Parisian Urbanism with Terra Nova. He has been General Manager of BVA (Market Research), Deputy General Manager of Sofres (Market Research) and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Médiaspouvoirs. He was also vice-chairman of the board of ILIAD (the parent company of FREE) between 2004 and 2008. Between 1988 and 1991, Jean Louis Missika directed the information service of Prime Minister Michel Rocard.