Godefroy Beauvallet

Godefroy Beauvallet, who is Deputy Manager of the Department of “Economics, Management, Human and Social Science” of the ENST, has worked both in academics and operational surroundings within the French public sector. His research interests are the relationship between IT and efficiency, e-Government and collective intelligence. His operational experience includes telecommunication sector regulation for the French Government and management of reengineering and IT projects at inter-ministerial level. For two years he has been advisor for e-Government to Michel Sapin, former French minister for public administration and reform. Godefroy Beauvallet has written three books, which deal with efficient use of IT, sociology of science and of technology and management of projects with a heavy IT component. He has also written several articles on various dimensions of IT use. Godefroy Beauvallet is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, ENST (Paris) and Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines (Paris). 
Niels Christian Nielsen
Niels Christian Nielsen was on the founding Board of 2MIinvest a/s, a highly successful venture capital firm, and served as the company’s Chairman from 1994 and until its successful IPO early year 2000. Niels Christian is currently the CEO and President of Catenas, Inc. He has had advisory functions in industrial policy for the governments of the United States, Canada, Australia and several European countries. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Codan, Jyllands Posten, Unimerco, Hofman Bang, Mandag Morgen, Learning Lab and the foreign companies connected with Catenas. Niels Christian is also member of the National Council for Competency. He has been a pioneer in developing viable models for network cooperation among companies in practice, but also advised governments around the world how to enable small firm competitiveness by implementing network programs.
Olli Rehn
Director of Research Olli Rehn holds a D.Phil. in international political economy from the University of Oxford (thesis: Corporatism and Industrial Competitiveness in Small European States). Currently his research and teaching interests focus on institutions and policy networks of the European Union, as well as on the political economy of the knowledge-driven economy. In 2002, he conducted an evaluation project and strategic assessment of the Finnish Communications Regulatory Agency. He served as the Head of Cabinet for Commissioner Erkki Liikanen in 1998-2002 and in that capacity was member of the Commission’s internal cross-departmental steering group of the eEurope action plan in 1999-2002. Prior to that, he led two major research projects in 1996-97, one focusing on the political economy of Eastern enlargement of the EU, the other concentrating on co-ordination and policy networks of EU decision-making in Finland. He was a Member of the European Parliament in 1995-96 and of the Parliament of Finland in 1991-95.
Nicolas Veron
Nicolas Véron, a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines in Paris, has worked both in the private and public sector and now heads ECIF, a business consultancy specialized in financial information. Prior to founding ECIF in late 2002, he was CFO of MultiMania / Lycos France, a leading, publicly-listed French internet portal company. Before that, he had been senior corporate adviser to Minister of Labor Martine Aubry in 1997-2000. Véron is also involved as a scholar in various French publications and think tanks.”