Conference Program

CLAIRE PAPONNEAU
Executive Vice-President
International Wholesale Solutions
France Telecom

Claire Paponneau is Executive Vice-President of International Wholesale Solutions, providing innovative services to more than 1000 mobile operators, international carriers, ISPs and content providers. Before taking up her current position in 2002, Claire was Executive Vice-President of International Networks.

Claire joined France Telecom in 1984 and has been involved in the management of networks, services and video planning as well as finance, planning and information systems. She was also responsible for setting up a unified organization of multicultural teams in 2000 following the France Telecom Group’s acquisition of Global One (later to become Equant, the world leader in the corporate services market).

Claire is a graduate of the French National School of Telecommunications and the Ecole des Mines, Paris. She also holds a research degree in Mathematics from the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.