Jean-Jacques Subrenat

Country:	France
Currently a member of ICANN's EURALO Formerly a member of the ICANN Board

Jean-Jacques Subrenat's volunteer work on Internet matters has included being:

- member of the NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG),

- member of the NETMundial Coordination Council

- President of the Steering Committee, IndividualUsers.org (elected in October 2015).

- member of the ALAC, twice appointed by ICANN's NomCom, 2010-2012, again 2012-2014.. In ALAC, set up its Future Challenges Working Group (FCWG), of which he is Co-Chair. The FCWG produced the ALAC White Paper "Making ICANN Relevant, Responsive and Respected" (R3)].

- member of the ICANN Board, appointed by the NomCom, 2007-10.. During his service on the Board, was (successively or simultaneously) active in several Committees: President's Strategy Committee (where he was a co-author of the "Implementation Plan for Improving Institutional Confidence"); Structural Improvements Committee; Public Participation Committee (as its first Chair). Subrenat also served on several Board Working Groups: ALAC Review, Board Review, ccNSO Review (as its Chair).

Subrenat is "self-educated" with regards to the Internet. He has been involved in international Internet governance fora since the first IGF in Athens.

Articles, comments & videos about the Internet

• Subrenat's contributions to the industry blog, CircleID, can be found here.
• Subrenat speaking on the Multistakeholder Model and the role of governments within ICANN (interviewed by Glenn McKnight):

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Professional experience

Subrenat was a French diplomat, 1971-2005. Among other assignments, he was on the Policy Planning Staff (1976-78); seconded to the Ministry of Industry to help set up the Solar Energy Authority, where he created and 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 serve as Ambassador to the Western European Union in Brussels (1995-1998), to Estonia (1998-2002), and Finland (2002-2005). He acted as interim Governor for France on the Board of Governors of the Asia-Europe Foundation ASEF in 2005. He retired from diplomatic service in 2005.

Other activity includes:

• Researcher, CNRS, 1967-1971.
• Tutor, Institut International d'Administration Publique, 1986-88.
• Chairman of the Advisory Board, Institut Pierre Werner, 2007-10.
• Senior advisor to the board of CCRN (Centre culturel et de rencontre Neumunster), which he represented in EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture network), 2009-10.
• Tutor, Ecole nationale d'administration, Strasbroug, 2007-08 .

Publications

• Subrenat is the editor of Estonia - Identity and Independence;;
• author of Listen, There's Music From the Forest: a Brief Presentation of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in English and French.

Education

Jean-Jacques Subrenat holds a doctoral degree ("Doctorat du troisième cycle") in history from the Sorbonne University in Paris, and other degrees from Bordeaux, Osaka, Paris.

At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.