Former attorney at the Paris & New York Bars, Maïa Bensimon is now Secretary General of the French national union for authors and composers, SNAC (Syndicat National des Auteurs et des Compositeurs). She works at the European level with the Federations defending authors' rights, in particular, ECSA (for the music sector) and EWC (for the book sector, for which she has been vice-president since 2021).