Primary Job Title Member of the Board of Directors Primary Organization 
ICANN
Location Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Bruno Lanvin is the Executive Director of INSEAD's European Competitiveness Initiative (IECI), and of Global Indices projects at INSEAD (Global Information Technology, Global Innovation Index, and Global Talent Competitiveness Index). From 2007 to 2012, he has been the Executive Director of INSEAD's eLab, managing INSEAD's teams in
Paris, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. From September 2007 to February 2013, Dr. Lanvin has been Director of INSEAD's eLab, managing INSEAD's teams in Paris, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Under his leadership, eLab's main areas of focus were leadership in knowledge economies, skills/e-skills, innovation, economic impact of social networks, new roles of government. He also teaches in INSEAD's MBA and Executive Education Programmes (e.g. on Social Media Strategies).
In December 2011, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of IDA Infocomm in Singapore (www.ida.gov.sg); he currently serves as a member of the Media Convergence Panel of Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) (www.mda.gov.sg); since 2010, he has been a Broadband Commissioner (www.broadbandcommission.org).
In 2009-2010, he has been Chair of the Global Advisory Council on the Future of Government (World Economic Forum), on which he continues to serve, focusing in particular on the influence of social media on governance, democracy, and public sector innovation (www.weforum.org/pdf/GAC09/council/future_of_government/proposal.htm).
From 2000 to 2007, he worked for the World Bank, where he was inter alia Senior Advisor for E-strategies, Regional Coordinator (Europe and Central Asia) for ICT and e-government issues and Chairman of the Bank's e-Thematic Group. From June 2001 to December 2003, he was the Manager of the Information for Development Program (infoDev).
In 2000, Mr. Lanvin was appointed Executive Secretary of the G-8 DOT Force. Before that, he worked for some twenty years in senior positions in the United Nations.
The author of numerous books and articles on international economics, information technology and development, he holds a BA in Mathematics and Physics, an MBA from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris I – La Sorbonne.
He has worked in some 70 countries, and speaks French, English, Spanish, with practical knowledge of Italian, Portuguese, Russian and basic Chinese.
