Bertrand de La Chapelle

Executive Director of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network (I&JPN), an organization he co-founded in 2012. He is an internationally recognized expert of policy and governance issues related to the internet and Artificial Intelligence, with more than 25 years of experience in that regard. An engineer (X), but also a professional diplomat (ENA), and entrepreneur, he was a Director on the Board of ICANN (the global organization overseeing the naming system of the internet), France’s Thematic Ambassador for the Information Society, and the co-founder and CEO of Virtools, an early virtual reality pioneer, later acquired by Dassault Systèmes.