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Jean-Jacques Subrenat
Jean-Jacques Subrenat is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Institut Pierre Werner in Luxembourg (2007~), and a tutor at ENA (Ecole nationale d'administration in Strasbroug, 2007~).
His professional experience is wide-ranging: he was a volunteer in the French Navy (1960-63), a scholarship student in Bordeaux and Paris (1964-68), a researcher at the CNRS in Paris and Kyoto (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1967-71), and in the French diplomatic service (1972-2005). He was an Ambassador for ten consecutive years (1995-2005).
He worked at the Ministry of foreign affairs in Paris, at the Policy Planning Staff (1976-78), on secondment to the Ministry of industry to help set up the Solar Energy Authority, as first Head of its department of international affairs (1978-80), Diplomatic Adviser to the Minister for Europe (1980-81), Deputy director for Asia and the Pacific (1984-86), Alternate director for development aid (1986-88), Alternate director for the Americas (1992-95).
He was posted in Singapore (Embassy Secretary 1973-76), in Japan (Counsellor 1981-84, Minister Counsellor & Deputy Head of mission 1988-92). He was Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the Western European Union (WEU in Brussels 1995-98), Ambassador to Estonia (1998-2002), Ambassador to Finland (2002-05), Acting Governor for France at the ASEF Board of Governors (2005).
Ambassador Subrenat has a doctor's degree from the Sorbonne University in Paris and various other degrees (Bordeaux, Paris, Osaka). He is frequently invited as a speaker and writes articles on global trends, current affairs, international relations, social matters. Edited a book on Estonia; published a book on a major music festival in Finland.
He visited the USA as an individual guest of the International Visitor Program (1986). He was awarded honorary distinctions by Estonia (2002), Finland (2005), France (1982, 1994, 2005), Japan (1992), Thailand (1987). He was born in 1940, and is remarried. He has four children.
Jean-Jacques Subrenat was selected for the ICANN Board by the Nominating Committee. His current term, which started after the 2007 annual meeting, will end after the conclusion of ICANN's annual meeting in 2010.