Anne Le Henanff

Anne Le Henanff is France's Minister Delegate for AI and Digital Affairs, a junior ministerial role within the French government responsible for digital transformation, AI policy and France's positions on EU digital regulation. She chaired the G7 Digital Ministerial at Bercy, the Paris seat of the French finance ministry, on 29 May 2026 -- the event France had built as the international launch platform for CAIDA, the EU's cloud sovereignty law. The ministerial convened two days after CAIDA's third adoption slip, with cloud sovereignty, CAIDA and EU-US digital trade tensions absent from the official four-priority agenda.

The four declared priorities for the Bercy ministerial were AI safety, SME AI adoption, environmental sustainability and child safety online -- a reframe that replaces French cloud-sovereignty ambition with Hiroshima-style AI-principles consensus that all G7 partners can endorse. Le Henanff presided over a meeting that endorsed working-group results rather than binding commitments. The diplomatic consequence is that France used its 2026 G7 digital chair without being able to put its flagship sovereignty instrument before Washington, Tokyo and Ottawa.

Le Henanff entered her current role as France stepped up its AI and digital affairs profile under the Barnier and subsequent governments. Her position is at the intersection of domestic AI industrial policy -- France is home to Mistral AI, the most prominent European AI champion -- and EU-level negotiations on CAIDA, the AI Act and DMA enforcement. The Bercy ministerial is a reputational moment for French digital leadership: the gap between the agenda France planned and the agenda it could defend is the record of what the Paris-Berlin CAIDA split cost the presidency.