IIC France Chapter inaugural meeting – Sustainable electronic communications: What governance and what next?

Aude is a Director at Analysys Mason, and an economist with nearly 20 years’ experience at the crossroads of technology, telecoms and regulation. She works for industry stakeholders on informing their economic and regulatory decisions and improving their policies and performance. Her differentiating strength is her ability to connect the dots between market dynamics, regulatory shifts, technological disruption and societal expectations. She helps to translate complex and nuanced areas of policy and change into clear strategic implications for decision makers. She has led and managed international projects for BEREC, the ITU, the World Bank, GSMA and national regulators, and has advised global tech companies and telecoms operators. 

She currently serves on the board of directors of the think tank Renaissance Numérique and chairs the French chapter of the International Institute of Communications (IIC). Aude holds a PhD in Economics (Telecom ParisTech), an MPhil in International Economic Relations (Sciences Po Paris) and an MSc in Business Administration (SKEMA Business School, France).

Mentoring matters to her: she actively supports younger women in tech and policy, and she is drawn to anything that makes leadership more open and futureproof.

Bénédicte Lesage is a member of the board of the French Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom). She joined Arcom in February 2023.

A figure in independent production for more than thirty years, Ms Lesage created and directed the production company Mascaret Films (1999-2017) before directing Shine Films within EndemolShine France (2017-2019). She has produced, among others, “La Journée de la Jupe” and the series Guyane.

Since 2020, she has been at the helm of Lb. Productions dedicated to audiovisual creation. Ms Lesage has taken part in multiple actions and reflections of general interest in the fields of audiovisual and cinema, she chaired the Union of Independent Producers (2012-2013) and co-chaired the editorial committee of the Série Series festival in France and Africa.

Ms Lesage joined Arcom in February 2023. She chairs the working group “Media Literacy, Ecological Transition and Public Health” and vice-chairs the working group “Radios and Digital Audio”.

Emmanuel Gabla was nominated as Membre du Collège at the board of Arcep at the beginning of 2019. He was previously the Head of the Economic Section of France’s embassy in Norway from 2016 until his appointment at Arcep.

Mr Gabla began his career in 1993 at the Ministry of Post & Telecom, which developed the 1996 Act that opened the telecoms sector up to competition. Starting in 1999, Mr Gabla served as an advisor on telecoms, the information society, postal affairs and industrial aspects of the internal market to the Permanent Representation of France to the European Union, as Technical Advisor to the Prime Minister, Jean Pierre Raffarin, in charge of telecoms and postal affairs, industrial property and space, and the head of the Technologies and Information Society department at the Directorate-General for Enterprise.

From 2009 to 2015, Mr Gabla was a member of the Board of the French broadcasting authority, CSA, and a member of the General Council for the Economy, Industry, Energy and Technologies from 2015 to 2016.

Mr Gabla is a former student at the Ecole Polytechnique, a graduate of the Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications (ENST), and a Chief Telecommunications Engineer.

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Lynn Robinson became Director General of the International Institute of Communications (IIC), in March 2020.

Lynn is an experienced senior director and trustee / non exec-director, having held key senior leadership positions in the technology, built environment, regulation, accreditation and dental industries. She has extensive experience of professional membership bodies working within the full spectrum including, Regulatory bodies, Industry associations and Chambers of Commerce. Lynn is a well-known and established ambassador in these areas having led on many strategic programmes to aid engagement, growth, retention, change management, stakeholder and political engagement.

Thierry Valette has 25 years experience in the telecommunications industry. He’s currently VP, Network strategy & security within Orange France. Previously, he held different positions at Orange group mainly in developing Fixed broadband initiatives including the fiber strategic program. He also worked within Huawei (6 years) as  CTO, Fixed access network for Europe region and CTO for Orange group.

Thierry graduated from the ESSEC Business School as well as Ecole Centrale Paris for Entrepreneurship after graduating from Institut Mines Telecom Nord Europe for a degree in Telecommunication.

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