Eric Fournier

Director for Spectrum Planning & International Affairs

Eric Fournier is Director for Spectrum Planning and International Affairs at the Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR), France's national spectrum agency, a post he has held since 2007. He is a graduate telecommunications engineer from SUPELEC in France. He prepares revisions of the French national table of frequency allocations and coordinates French positions in international spectrum discussions at the ITU, CEPT and the European Union. He was deputy head of the French delegation at the Regional Radiocommunication Conference in 2006 and at the World Radiocommunication Conferences of 2007, 2012, 2015, 2019 and 2023, and chaired the European preparatory group for the 2012 conference. He chaired the CEPT Electronic Communications Committee from 2013 to 2018 and chaired the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG), which advises the European Commission, between 2022 and 2024. France has nominated him as its candidate for Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau for 2027 to 2030, with the election due in Doha in November 2026.