Allison Marchildon is full professor and head of applied ethics programs in the Department of Philosophy and Applied Ethics at the Université de Sherbrooke. She is also co-responsible for the ethics, governance and democracy axis of the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies (OBVIA).

Her research focuses in particular on fair trade, leading her to carry out field studies in Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru and France in order to observe the different forms of governance employed to promote fair trade and their effects on the empowerment of small-scale producers. She is also interested in corporate social responsibility and the responsible development of artificial intelligence and new technologies.

Her publications include the article Éthique et certifications de commerce équitable: entre contrôle et capacitation, published in vol.21 no.1 (2019) of the journal Éthique publique devoted to ethical certifications, which she co-edited, as well as the article Corporate responsibility or corporate power? CSR and the shaping of the definitions and solutions to our public problems (2016), published in the Journal of Political Power.