Vincent Peyrègne (44) took up duties as Chief Executive Officer of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) on 1st October 2012. Prior to joining WAN-IFRA, since the end of 2008 he worked in the office of the French minister of Culture and Communication where he was responsible for newspapers and new media. From 2004 to 2008 he was head of development at Edipresse Publications SA in Switzerland, with responsibility for consumer insights and editorial marketing research. In 1997, as Regional Manager of IFRA, he established IFRA South West Europe, the IFRA subsidiary with responsibility for the French-speaking regions and the Iberian Peninsula, which he headed for seven years. Before joining IFRA for the first time, he worked for three years for the advertising sales department of the business daily publication La Tribune Desfossés in Paris. He began his professional career working as a consultant for several French newspaper companies, such as Libération and Groupe Sud-Ouest as well as for French publishers. Vincent Peyrègne is a founding board member of the French-language chapter of SND (Society for News Design) and since several years a member of ESOMAR and INMA, and a former member of the REMP-WEMF Research Committee (advertising media research) in Zurich.