An entrepreneur and a diplomat, Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE is a co-animator of the OpenWSIS Initiative since its foundation in december 2002

A former advisor to the French Minister for European Affairs, co-founder of Virtools and former member of the G8 DOT Force, he devoted two years in 2001-2002 to the study of multi-stakeholder mechanisms for global governance.

Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique (1981), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1983) and an alumni of Ecole Nationale d'Administration (1986).