Philippe Wacker
Secretary General

Philippe Wacker has represented the European multimedia community in the capacity of Secretary General of the European Multimedia Forum (EMF) since 1994.

The EMF is the main European Trade Association promoting the competitiveness of the converging digital media industries in the global market place. The EMF Secretariat is currently based in Brussels, Belgium.

Since 1989, Mr Wacker has been active as a management consultant advising digital content & technology companies and public administrations.

As a founding partner of EMFS and The Bayard Partnership, Mr Wacker has spent the last 15 years as an advisor to numerous multinational corporations, SMEs as well as the European Commission.

From 1989 to 1998, he served as Secretary General of the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), an international non-profit organisation that advocates fair competition and public policies in the Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) markets.

In the mid-eighties, he started his career with the EU Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce, representing the interests of European companies of American parentage in Brussels.

A French national, Mr Wacker holds a Master's Degree in Business Law and a Political Science Degree of the University of Strasbourg. Furthermore, he received a Master's Degree of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges in 1983.