Pierrick Judéaux

Director of Policy and Ecosystem Development, International Fund for Public Interest Media (France)

Pierrick is a founding team member of the International Fund for Public Interest Media, the first multilateral financing vehicle to fund media across low and middle income countries. He leads the Fund’s activities to create new funding mechanisms, such as national Journalism Funds, and to promote policies and other systemic interventions strengthening media ecosystems and fostering the sustainability of independent media.

Pierrick spent the first years of his career in the Strategy Unit of Europe’s largest broadcasting group, RTL Group, and advising various media and telecommunications companies in Europe, before embracing an international development career.

In the past 10 years prior to joining the International Fund, Pierrick has been a senior advisor to multiple Heads of State across Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe on economic and democratic development. He has led large-scale international development initiatives such as the USAID-funded Power Africa Senior Advisory Group and was an Associate Director of Policy at the Open Society Foundations.