Henri Verdier, born in 1968, is the French Ambassador for Digital Affairs. Since 2018, he leads and coordinates the French Digital Diplomacy. He previously was the inter-ministerial director for digital information and communications systems of France; and he was the director of Etalab, the French agency for public open data. Mr Verdier is also an entrepreneur: he was the CEO of MFG Labs, an internet-based startup involved in social data mining, and chairman of the board of Cap Digital, the French-European Cluster for Digital Content and Services. Mr Verdier was the founding director of Edition Odile Jacob Multimedia, a publishing company in the field of e-learning and executive adviser for innovation at Lagard're Group. He co-authored three books: L'Age de la Multitude, Entreprendre et Gouverner Apr's la R'volution Num'rique (The Age of Multitude, Entrepreneurship and Governance After the Digital Revolution), Des Startup d''tat ' l''tat plateforme (From State Startups to the Platform State), and Le Business de la haine: Internet, la d'mocratie et les r'seaux sociaux (The Business of Hate: Internet, Democracy and Social Networks). Mr Verdier is a graduate of Ecole Normale Sup'rieure.