Romain Poirot-Lellig
Romain Poirot-Lellig (born 18 February 1978) is a French policy advisor specialised in foreign policy and intellectual property issues. From 2001 to 2008, he has been involved in setting up financing and promoting policy initiatives for digital media producers
Biography
Since June 2008, Poirot-Lellig resides in Kabul, Afghanistan where he works as political advisor for a major international institution, having been previously NATO desk officer at the French Prime minister's Secretariat général de la défense nationale from 2007 to 2008.
From 2001 to 2008, he has been a board director at G&T Advisers Ltd., a firm providing Financial advisory to media and entertainment companies in Asia and Europe. Poirot-Lellig advised a wide variety of clients on contractual, policy and production matters.
From 2005 to 2008, he was special adviser for public policy to the President of Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. As such, he was responsible, from the private sector side, in managing the negotiation and application of a digital production tax credit voted by French Parliament and approved by the European Commission.
Prior to joining G&T Advisers Ltd, Romain Poirot-Lellig has been a journalist for leading French newspapers, including La Tribune and Paris Match from 1996 to 2000.
Romain Poirot-Lellig received a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and a Master’s Degree in Corporate Management from the Université Paris IX Dauphine.
Contributions
Poirot-Lellig has been the leading participant in France in defining the French video game policy and establishing working relations between the electronic entertainment industry and the French Government and the European Commission. Notably, he has been a Founder and Executive Director of Association des Producteurs d’Oeuvres Multimédia (APOM, now Syndicat National du Jeu Vidéo), a trade group, from 2001 to 2005, as well as a Founder and Board Member of the EGDF, its European equivalent, from 2003 to 2005. He was thus considered to be the main promoter of French video game policy.
As such, he engineered acceptance of the digital entertainment industry by French and European administrations and helped a scattered industry to organize as a coherent ensemble, and helped defined a range of fiscal incitations to promote development of the digital entertainment industry in France.
External links
- Romain Poirot-Lellig at MobyGames
- Romain Poirot-Lellig’s biography at Transmediale 05
- Romain Poirot-Lellig’s biography at IDATE 27th International Conference