Florence Jacqueline Sylvie Devouard, (; born 10 September 1968) is a French
agricultural engineer
Agricultural engineering, also known as agricultural and biosystems engineering, is the field of study and application of engineering science and designs principles for agriculture purposes, combining the various disciplines of mechanical enginee ...
who served as the chair of the
Wikimedia Foundation
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board of trustees between October 2006 and July 2008.
Education
Devouard holds an
engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...
ing degree in
agronomy
Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and ...
from
ENSAIA and a
DEA
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in genetics and biotechnologies from
INPL.
Career
On 9 March 2008, Devouard was elected member of the municipal council of
Malintrat
Malintrat () is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme département in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France.Jimmy Wales
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. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Foundation since July 2008.
Co-founder of Wikimedia France in October 2004, she was vice-chair of its board as of 2011 until December 2012.
Recognition
On 16 May 2008, she was made a
knight
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in the French
National Order of Merit, proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as "chair of an international foundation".
See also
*
List of Wikipedia people
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By surname
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References
Specific
Further reading
*
Lih, Andrew. ''
The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia''.
Hyperion,
New York City
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. 2009. First Edition. (alkaline paper).
External links
Anthere Consulting website
Personal blogWikimedia Foundation and sustainability*
*
2005 Board candidacy presentation
* Video-Interview on 10 February 2007 at the Lift07 conference in Geneva
* Interview with Florence Devouard.
'Madame Wikipedia' runs web giant from village HQ 2007 AFP article
A Life in the Day: Florence Devouard2007 ''Times'' article
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1968 births
Living people
Chairpersons of organizations
Chairwomen
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
French Wikimedians
French women engineers
People from Versailles
Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board members
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members
Wikimédia France
21st-century women engineers
20th-century women engineers
21st-century French engineers
20th-century French engineers
Agricultural engineers
20th-century French women
21st-century French women