Speaker Bio

Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google Cloud Frederic Geraud de Lescazes was previously leading RELX’s Government Affairs engagement with French & Southern Europe political institutions, focusing on intellectual property, content-based services, cyber security, privacy, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Prior to RELX Group, he served for 8 years as Government Affairs Director & General Secretary at Cisco France developing digitization awareness through Government partnerships, software legislation, Cyber security policies, workforce digital readiness and developing policies promoting the development of the Internet. He has also been lobbyist at Microsoft France and Orange. His government service also included a position of Chief of Staff at French Senate & Watchdog officer at TV and Radio national regulator (CSA). Frederic Geraud de Lescazes received its Political Sciences and Economics degrees from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.