With a degree of political sciences from "Sciences Po Paris", Benoit Thieulin is a French internet pioneer, expert in e-gov, civic tech and business digital transition.
After 4 years in asia, working on IT, he worked at the prime minister office in 2000 to coordinate the on ligne governmental communication. In 2005, during the European Treaty Referendum, he created a technology watch on new media that revealed the power of critical networks regarding the weakness of pro-europeans involved in the web campaign. After the victory of the “no”, he was appointed by the European Commission at the head of ther French European Portal.
In 2006, Benoit Thieulin created the website, www.desirsdavenir.org, to support Segolène Royal candidacy for the social “primairies”.Then he then he supervised the web campaign of socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal in 2007 and organized the “off & on line” massive participative debates.
In June 2007, Benoit Thieulin created La Netscouade, an internet agency, specialized in social web, on line communities, techno-politics and participative processes. They developed the online participative journal "Mediapart", launched by the former Director of Le Monde, Edwy Plenel. La Netscouade develops and maintains many websites as a mean of public consultation and also many social networks both for internal (Companies 2.0) or external purposes (CRM 2.0). La Netscouade has grown rapidly, reaching around sixty employees and focusing on digital transformation issues, in several years.
In 2012, Benoît Thieulin was appointed President of the National Digital Council by the French President of the Republic. At the head of a college of 30 members specializing in digital technology, he advises the government for 3 years on its digital policy. It provides more than twenty opinions and reports on a wide variety of subjects: financing of start-ups, regulation of algorithms, e-learning, digitization of public administrations, digital taxation, e-gov, civic tech, etc. Several of these reflections result in a Law (Law on the Digital Republic) and in European directives (GDPR, Net Neutrality, platform regulation).
In 2015, Benoît Thieulin joined "SciencesPo" as Dean and created with Marie-Laure Djellic, the School of Management and Innovation: a business school which intends to train managers of the new economic area, watered social sciences, with an emphasis on innovation, sustainable digital technology, to build positive and sustainable business.
Conferences and Survey mission.
Benoit Thieulin participates to several TV and Radio programs on digital innovative practices. He is involved regularly, in many conferences about the digital transition, in London, Dublin, Berlin, etc.
He is a member of the board of the French progressive Think Tank, Terranova. He conducted a one month French mission to the USA to deliver a survey about the innovative phenomenon of the Obama campaign.
