[WSIS CS-Plenary] Additional Info Media Tunis

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Adina, please find a bio below.
 Best. Bertrand
  *Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE*
*Co-coordinator*
*CS Working Group on WSIS implementation and follow-up*
   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.
 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 ( www.virtools.com <http://www.virtools.com/>), 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.
 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.
  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
wsis-online.net <http://wsis-online.net/>, the community platform for WSIS.
 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).
  Bertrand de La Chapelle
Tel : +33 (0)6 11 88 33 32
email : bdelachapelle at gmail.com
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