Henri Verdier
Henri Verdier is the State Chief data officer of French Government.[1] Born November 24, 1968, former Student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Henri verdier is a French entrepreneur, and currently the Head of Etalab, the French Agency for Public Open data. With Etalab, he launched the first government open data portal open to Citizen's contributions.[2]
Henri Verdier was CEO of MFG Labs,[3] an internet startup involved in social data mining, and Chairman of the Board of Cap Digital, the French European Cluster for Digital Content and Services located in Paris Region.
He is a member of the ARCEP Strategic Committee, a member of the CNIL Strategic Committee and was a member of the board of Paris-Sorbonne University.
He was awarded the Ordre National du Mérite in 2010.
Aside from this position, Henri Verdier was the founder Director of "Edition Odile Jacob Multimedia", a publishing company in the field of e-learning, Executive Adviser for Innovation at Lagardère Group and the Director of Prospective for the Institut Telecom.
Works
with Nicolas Colin : L'Age de la multitude, Entreprendre et gouverner après la révolution numérique (Editions Armand Colin, Paris, 2010)
Numerous contributions in collective works, such as :
- Le Dictionnaire politique d'Internet et du numérique (Editions La Tribune, Paris, 2010)
- TIC 2025 : Les grandes mutations (FYP Editions, Paris, 2010)
- New Age to New Edge (Orange Institute, San Francisco, 2010)
External links
- An Interview of Henri Verdier on TechCrunch
- (English) An interview of Henri Verdier in ParitechReview
- (in French) the biography of Henri Verdier on the website of the former ENS students
- (in French) An interview of Henri Verdier on national tv
- (in French) A profile of Henri Verdier in Le Nouvel Observateur
- (in French) A conference of Henri Verdier at ANDSI, the association of French CIOs about CDOs and Data, a week before being appointed CDO of France
References
- ↑ "Décret n° 2014-1050 du 16 septembre 2014 instituant un administrateur général des données". legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). 17 September 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ↑ http://techpresident.com/news/wegov/24644/world-first-frances-datagouvfr-opens-platform-citizens-submissions
- ↑ http://mfglabs.com/