FLORENCE DEVOUARD

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'Florence Nibart-Devouard' (born September 10, 1968) is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation since October 2006, succeeding Jimmy Wales.[1]
Devouard contributes to Wikipedia as '"Anthere"'.
Devouard was born in Versailles, France. She grew up in Grenoble and has lived in several other French cities, as well as Antwerp in Belgium and in Arizona in the United States. As of 2005, she resides in Clermont-Ferrand in France. She is married to Bertrand Devouard and has three children, William (born 1997), Anne-Gaëlle (born 1998) and Thomas (born 2006).[2]
Devouard is an engineer in agronomy at ENSAIA. She also holds a DEA in genetics and biotechnologies from INPL.[3][4] She had been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasibility of polluted soil bioremediation. She was last employed in a French firm to design decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture.

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1. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees#Florence_Nibart-Devouard
2. A Life In The Day: Florence Devouard John Follain
3. l'INPL - Nancy : formation d'Ingénieurs et de docteurs
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Foundation bio

on blogs and wiki

Wikimedia Foundation and sustainability



2005 Board candidacy presentation

Portrait

Profile in English at ''Middle Eastern Times'' taken from AFP

Video-Interview on 10th February 2007 at the Lift07 conference in Geneva

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