Biographies

​Gilles Thonet joined the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 2015 and is the Director of the General Secretary’s Office, Deputy to the General Secretary, and Secretary of the IEC Standardization Management Board. In his current role, Gilles oversees the IEC technical boards, the IEC strategy, legal and compliance matters, as well as external relationships with partner organizations. A technology executive with international experience in high tech industrial companies (including ABB, Eaton and Schneider Electric), Gilles has a PhD in Communication Technologies from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), a MSc in Electrical Engineering from Louvain School of Engineering, and an MBA from Grenoble Graduate School of Business.