Jean-Jacques Subrenat (born 1940) is a French

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who served as

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, permanent representative to the Western European Union in

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(1995–1998),

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

(1998–2002) and to

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(2002–2005). He represented France at the Board of Governors of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in 2005. He retired from the diplomatic service in September 2005. Speaks, debates and writes on international relations,

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affairs, Asia, defence and security, global trends and challenges, Internet governance. A member of the At-Large Advisory Committee (2010~12, again 2012–14) ( ALAC) of the

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(ICANN). Currently a member of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG). Member of the NetMundial Initiative Coordination Council (since December 2014). Chairman of the Advisory Board (2007~09) of "Institut Pierre Werner" in Luxemburg. Tutor at ENA (Ecole nationale d'administration) in Strasbourg (2007~08). Member of the Board of Directors, CANN(2007–2010). Special adviser to the Board of "Centre culturel et de rencontre Neumunster" (CCRN) in Luxembourg (2009–2010), which he represented on the Board of European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) (2008–2010). At EUNIC, he was a member of the organizing committee of the "Europe-China Cultural Dialogue 中欧文化对话 (''Zhong-Ou wenhua duihua''), also serving as keynote speaker and moderator in the first three sessions of this Dialogue (Beijing 2009, Copenhagen 2010, Shanghai 2011).

Professional history

He served as a volunteer in the French Navy (1960–63), was a scholarship student in Bordeaux and Paris (1963–68) and worked as a research fellow at the

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, CNRS from 1967 to 1971. After entering the diplomatic service in 1972, he served at the French Ministry of foreign affairs in Paris (policy planning staff, administration and personnel, directorate for Asia and the Pacific, development cooperation, directorate for the Americas), and in several French embassies including as secretary in Singapore and counsellor and later minister-counsellor in Tokyo. He was seconded to the (1978–80) to set up the International department at the French solar energy authority

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, which subsequently became the ADEME.

Books published

* Initiator and Editor of "Estonia, identity and independence", published by Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York, 2004 ; also published, under his

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A. Bertricau, in Estonian and Russian by Avita, Tallinn 2001; and in French, "Estonie, identité et indépendance" by L'Harmattan, Paris 2002 * ''Listen, there's music from the forest: a short presentation of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival'', in English and French, by Jean-Jacques Subrenat, .

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External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Subrenat, Jean-Jacques 1940 births Ambassadors of France to Finland Ambassadors of France to Estonia Living people Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class French expatriates in Singapore French expatriates in Japan