Frederic Geraud

Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google Cloud France

Frédéric Géraud de Lescazes previously led RELX’s government affairs engagement with French and Southern European political institutions, focusing on intellectual property, content-based services, cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Prior to joining RELX Group, he served for 8 years as Director of Government Affairs and Secretary General at Cisco France, developing awareness of digitalization through government partnerships, software legislation, cybersecurity policies, digital training and the development of policies promoting the development of the Internet. He was also a lobbyist at Microsoft France and Orange. His Public Sector service also included a position as parliamentary assistant at the Senate and project manager at the CSA, which became ARCOM.

Frédéric Géraud de Lescazes holds degrees in political science and economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.