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Company: International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC).
Title: Manager Director CISAC
Country: France
25 nov - Round Table 1: "What is comming"

Eric Baptiste is at the helm of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), a position he has held since 1999. CISAC is an international organisation grouping 225 authors’ societies in 118 countries and representing 2.5 million creators and publishers of all repertoires (Musical, Visual Arts, Literary, Dramatical and Audiovisual).

Under Baptiste’s impetus, CISAC has become a proactive organisation serving Copyright Societies and creators worldwide as well as developing innovative solutions to facilitate the digital use of creators’ works.

Deeply involved in broadcast media, arts and cultural policies, he serves simultaneously as General Secretary of the board of Francophonie diffusion, and Chairman of Radio NEO, a non-commercial FM radio network exclusively devoted to new musical talent. .

Eric Baptiste previously served as General Manager of French public international radio RFI, and CEO of French commercial FM radio 95.2 Paris. .

He headed in parallel several trade associations and inter-industry groups, such as Musiques France Plus, trade association Vive la Radio, and the working group on relations between the radio and the music sector. He has also coordinated a report on Digital convergence and is the current chairman of ISAN-IA, the ISO appointed agency managing the AV Works identification standard ISAN. .

A graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP) and the Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA), in 2006 Eric Baptiste received the French medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.