
Franziska Bell
Fran Bell Ph.D. is Chief Data, AI and Analytics Officer at Ford Motor Company, a role she assumed in January 2025.
In this role, Fran leads a diverse team of experts focused on enhancing how the Ford enterprise solves business problems and drives business value through data, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics.
Fran joined Ford from BP, where she most recently served as Chief Technology Office (CTO) and Senior Vice President (SVP) of Digital Technology. At BP, her leadership encompassed a large technology organization responsible for software and platform engineering, data science, AI, data analytics, data engineering, data management, UX research, design, and change management. Before her time at BP, Fran held executive positions at Toyota Research Institute and Uber.
Fran holds a doctoral degree in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and a postdoc from Caltech.

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