Sarah Jacquier Pelissier has been appointed to the Arcep Executive Board by Decree of the President of the Republic, dated 23 March 2023.
Sarah Jacquier Pelissier holds a PhD from the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, and a Master’s in telecommunications and new media management from the Université Paris Dauphine. She began her career in 2001 as a lawyer with the firms Baker & McKenzie and later Hogan Lovells. In 2010, she was appointed legal director of HADOPI before joining the European Commission in 2014, as a national expert seconded to the Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT). In the "copyright" unit, she contributed to the reform of the neighbouring right of press publishers.
Since 2018, she has been an advisor on platform and digital law to the head of the legal and international affairs department of the Ministry of Culture. She is a member of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (France’s National Centre for Cinema/CNC) Regulatory oversight committee since 2021.
Sarah Jacquier Pelissier is replacing Monique Liebert-Champagne, who was an Arcep Board member from 2017 to 2022. The Authority extends it sincere thanks to Monique Liebert-Champagne for her tremendous contribution to its work over the years.
The Arcep Executive Board is composed of seven members: Laure de La Raudière (Chair) Serge Abiteboul, Maya Bacache, Joëlle Cottenye, Emmanuel Gabla, Sarah Jacquier Pelissier and François Lions. Three of them, including the Chair, are appointed by the President of the Republic. The other four are appointed, respectively, by the President of the National Assembly and the President of the Senate. Appointed for a period of six years, Board members’ term of office is irrevocable and non-renewable.
Associated document:
• Decree of appointment of Sarah Jacquier Pelissier published in the Journal Officiel