Jean-Jacques Subrenat

Speaks, debates and writes on international relations, European Union affairs, Asia, defence and security, global trends and challenges, Internet governance.

A member of the At-Large Advisory Committee (2010~12, again 2012–14) (ALAC)[2] of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

He served as a volunteer in the French Navy (1960–63), was a scholarship student in Bordeaux and Paris (1963–68) and worked as a research fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS[9] from 1967 to 1971.

After entering the diplomatic service in 1972, he served at the French Ministry of foreign affairs in Paris (policy planning staff, administration and personnel, directorate for Asia and the Pacific, development cooperation, directorate for the Americas), and in several French embassies including as secretary in Singapore and counsellor and later minister-counsellor in Tokyo.

He was seconded to the French Ministry of Industry [fr] (1978–80) to set up the International department at the French solar energy authority ComES, which subsequently became the Agency for the environment and energy management [fr] ADEME.