Telecommunications Engineer and graduates from Ecole Polytechnique, I am currently CEO of AFNIC,the registry of the database of .fr (France) and .re (Reunion Island) Internet domain names. AFNIC is a non-profit organization employing more than 70 people and managing more than 2 500 000 domains.

I have been involved for close to 15 years in the changes induced by the Internet across the economy.

From 2008 to 2012, I have also been a member of the Board of CENTR, the professionnal association of european top level domain managers. I was elected Chair of CENTR in 2010.

I previously was working since februrary 2000 for the French ministry in charge of industry and telecoms, in the Service of Technologies and Information Society. For three years, I have been in charge of the Réseau National de Recherche en télécommunications, supporting and monitoring R&D projects in telecommunications.

Then in 2003, I was appointed head of the ICT economic studies office, a team of 4 persons. The main topics are related to frequency license fees for telecommunications operators, setting up frequency trading in French law, administrative monitoring of Agence nationale des fréquences and conducting economic studies on ICT impact on productivity, employment or growth.

I was also acting as representative of the minister in charge of telecoms at the board of AFNIC and I did lecture about the telecommunications regulatory framework at Télécom Paris.

Apart from my interest in information society and competitivity issues, I practice running, and (used to) collect european comics.