Florence Devouard


Florence Jacqueline Sylvie Devouard, is the former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation between October 2006 and July 2008.

Education

Devouard holds an engineering degree in agronomy from ENSAIA and a DEA in genetics and biotechnologies from :fr:Institut national polytechnique de Lorraine|INPL.

Career

On 9 March 2008, Devouard was elected member of the municipal council of Malintrat.
Devouard joined the board of Wikimedia Foundation in June 2004 as Chair of the Board of Trustees, succeeding Jimmy Wales. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Foundation since July 2008.
Co-founder of Wikimedia France in October 2004, she was vice-chair of its board as of 2011 until December 2012.

Recognition

On 16 May 2008, she was made a knight in the French National Order of Merit, proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as "chair of an international foundation".

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