Jean-Jacques Subrenat

Dr. Jean-Jacques Subrenat is a writer and former diplomat. Presently, he is the senior advisor to the board of CCRN (Centre culturel et de rencontre Neumunster) and involved withEUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture). He is a former member of the ICANN Board; he was appointed by the NomCom to a term that began in 2007 and ended in 2010. He is currently a member of the ALAC, having been appointed twice by ICANN's NomCom, first from 2010-2012 and then reinstated from 2012 - 2014. Dr. Subrenat has noted that he is "self-educated" with regards to the Internet. He has been involved in a variety of international Internet government fora in the past decade, including the IGF.

Country:	France
Website:	[serenidee.over-blog.com serenidee.over-blog.com]
LinkedIn:	[jjsubrenat Jean-Jacques Subrenat]

Jean-Jacques Subrenat holds a Ph.D. in history from the Sorbonne University of Paris.

Diplomatic Service

Ambassador Subrenat served as a French diplomat for many years. In the French diplomatic service, he worked on the Policy Planning Staff (1976-78); in the Ministry of industry, setting up the Solar Energy Authority, where he also led the international affairs department (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 went on to served as ambassador to the Western European Union in Brussels (1995-1998), to Estonia (1998-2002), and Finland (2002-2005). He represented France on the Board of Governors of the Asia-Europe Foundation ASEF in 2005. He retired from diplomatic service in September 2005.

Other notable positions include:

• Volunteer, French Navy, 1960-63.
• Researcher, CNRS, 1967-1971.
• Chairman of Advisory Board, Institut Pierre Werner
• Tutor, Ecole nationale d'administration in Strasbroug

Publications

Dr. Subrenat is the editor of Estonia - Identity and Independence; he also wrote a book titled Listen, There's Music From the Forest: a Brief Presentation of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival.

Ambassador Subrenat's contributions to the industry blog, CircleID, can be found here.

One of Jean-Jacques Subrenat's longterm interests has been horology; an article he wrote on Finnish Watchmaking can be found here.

Videos

Dr. Subrenat speaking on the Multistakeholder Model and the historic role of governments within ICANN: <videoflash>H0gdmGY5Nz8</videoflash>