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Director General

Etienne Fiatte
Graduate of the HEC International Business School and the ENA National Administration School, and a diplomat by career, Etienne Fiatte has alternated since 1985 roles in international relations and the audiovisual and media sectors. On several occasions, he was notably involved in the external audiovisual policy at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. He additionally has experience in the public audiovisual sector - as director of the office of the chair of the INA (National Audiovisual Authority) for 4 years – as well as the private sector, where he directed an audiovisual production company. After 2003, Etienne Fiatte shifted his focus primarily towards assisting development in the media sector and worked in the Foreign Affairs Ministry in defining activities and policies of the French State in this sector around a specialist operator.
He was appointed Director General of CFI in November 2008 with the role of implementing this strategy at operational level.

Advisor to the CEO of CFI

Laurent Allary
Graduate business school and specialized in marketing in California and Japan, Laurent Allary has since 1989 in the field of international relations and in cultural and audiovisual.
He began his career as cooperating in Japan for a business center which coordinates market research. In 1991, Laurent Allary opens office in Tokyo Asian Unifrance Film International. Responsible for 12 years to lead the promotion of French cinema in Asia, he assured the busy office and monitoring of major French productions promotions.
He joined the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs in 2001 as an audiovisual attaché in Southern Africa, based in South Africa and Canada. He joined Canal France International in 2007 to develop audiovisual cooperation with French television in the South.
Laurent Allary is now advisor to the CEO of CFI, in charge of transversal projects and relationships with partners and guardianship.
lay@cfi.fr

Mediterranean-Asia Director

Eric Soulier
As Mediterranean and Asian Director at CFI (Canal France International), Eric Soulier held the post of South East Asian regional audiovisual attaché in Singapore (2003-2007) and in South Korea (1999-2003). Prior to this, he worked in the entertainment administration and distribution sector (dance, circus and world music) as well as in audiovisual production.
He was additionally responsible for cultural and audiovisual activities in Cambodia (CCF Phnom Penh) and Indonesia (CCF Jakarta).
Between 2003 and 2005, he presided the APEC Commission at the AIBD (Europe/Asia Commission of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development).
Eric graduated from the University of Québec in Montréal (MA - UQAM) and holds a Masters degree in Information and Communication from the University of Rennes II (France).
med-asie@cfi.fr

Director of Africa

Guillaume Pierre
After starting out as a journalist at Télérama and Cambodia (special adviser to the Cambodian television, launch of newspaper Le Mekong), Guillaume PIERRE became a producer / director of television and has authored numerous reports and magazines for various channels and production companies, including the television series « Les P’tits reporters du Monde » (The Little World reporters ), ITHEME in 1999. From 2001 to 2007, he chained two positions cooperation of the media on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, first the Democratic Republic of Congo (recovery of a school of audiovisual training), then in Istanbul (as regional audiovisual attaché to Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia).
 In 2007 he was recruited as Africa director of Canal France International. He graduated from IEP Paris and a postgraduate degree in International Relations.
afrique@cfi.fr

Administrative, Financial & Resource Director

Caroline Bletterer
A graduate of a Master of Laws and Master in Private Intellectual Property CEIPI in Strasbourg in 2002, Caroline Bletterer began her career in the audiovisual sector and media. After working in public broadcasting as a lawyer in the direct marketing and sale of the INA, she joined the private sector in 2006 to the legal department of the audiovisual group AB, where she developed her expertise in the production and distribution.
Caroline Bletterer joined CFI in 2009 as Assistant to the Director Finance and Resources Administration in charge of Legal Affairs.
She was appointed Director in April 2011.
cbr@cfi.fr

To contact us :

Canal France International
131 avenue de Wagram
75017 Paris - France

Téléphone 33 (0)1 40 62 32 32 - fax 33 (0)1 40 62 32 62