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<div>Best. Bertrand</div>
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<div><strong>Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE</strong></div>
<div><strong>Co-coordinator</strong></div>
<div><strong>CS Working Group on WSIS implementation and follow-up</strong></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font size="2">Bertrand de La Chapelle is a specialist and promoter of multi-stakeholder processes with a rare multiple experience as a diplomat, an entrepreneur and a civil society actor.
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font size="2">A french diplomat by training (as Head of the Mission for New Information Technologies of the French Foreign Ministry from 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the G8 DOT Force), he also enjoys nine years of private sector experience, particularly between 1994 and 1998 as a founder and President of Virtools (
<span></span> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.virtools.com/" target="_blank">www.virtools.com</a>), a company providing the world's leading development environment for 3D interactive content. The company, now selling in 22 countries, has been recently acquired by Dassault Systemes. Bertrand de La Chapelle is a member of the Board of the NGO Bridge Initiative International and a regular partner of the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation, and as such participated in several panels, including most recently in Brazil, Canada, Italy and China.
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font size="2">Previous assignments included Advisor to the French Minister for European Affairs (1987-1988). Bertrand de La Chapelle also conducted personal research in 2002 on multi-stakeholder governance mechanisms in his position as Special Advisor to the Director of Institut Français des Relations Internationales, the leading french think-tank on international relations.
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font size="2">Bertrand de La Chapelle has been actively involved in the WSIS process since its inception, leveraging the diversity of his experiences to promote dialogue between civil society, private sector and governmental representatives during the last four years. He is the co-coordinator of the Civil Society Working Group on WSIS Follow-up and the Director of
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font size="2">Bertrand de La Chapelle is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (1981), the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1983) and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (1986).
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font size="2">Bertrand de La Chapelle</font></span></div>
<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font size="2">Tel : +33 (0)6 11 88 33 32</font></span></div>
<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font size="2">email : <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:bdelachapelle@gmail.com" target="_blank">bdelachapelle@gmail.com</a></font></span>
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