Vincent Peyrègne is new Wan-Ifra CEO

Vincent Peyrègne, chief executive officer, Wan-Ifra, said, “Wan-Ifra plays a vital role in the international scene, both as a press freedom advocate and as a valuable network for business innovation and editorial strategies for media companies around the globe. It’s a sound organisation with unrivaled resources, strategic assets, and a deep, meaningful link to local market players. Like the industry we serve, our organization requires adjustment to respond strongly to new challenges. We have the opportunity to make long overdue improvements to increase our efficiency and deliver the best solutions to the industry, and to promote its values and missions worldwide.”

“I am proud to join an unrivaled organisation that understands perfectly what innovation and business development means for the promotion of a wealthy, free and independent press,” he added.

Peyrègne has a work experience of 25 and has worked in France, Germany, and Switzerland for several national and regional publishers, national and international trade organizations, and the French government. He has held various business positions in advertising, sales and technology, marketing research, consumer insight and innovation divisions. Aged 44, Vincent Peyrègne shows his dedication to develop new strategies and approaches for Wan-Ifra, the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers.

A former staff member of IFRA, having joined in 1997 to found IFRA South West Europe in Paris, and IFRA Ibérica SL in Madrid, the IFRA subsidiaries in charge of French and Spanish speaking countries and his first office was located at the World Association of Newspapers facilities in Paris. As a result, Peyrègne gained insights into both associations. Later Peyrègne worked for Edipresse Publications in Lausanne as head of Development and Marketing Research, before joining the office of the French minister of Culture and Communication, responsible for the ‘états généraux de la presse’, the French government’s response to the economic difficulties facing the newspaper industry.

Wan-Ifra, an international non-profit organisation, advocates and promotes freedom of the press worldwide, and delivers services and innovative solutions to a membership that includes 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and more than 3,000 companies in 120 countries. With a staff of 100 located in its European headquarters in Paris and Darmstadt, Germany, and its subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden, Wan-Ifra organizes more than 50 conferences and seminars each year, as well as its flagship events, the World Newspaper Congress, the World Editors Forum and the World Publishing Expo.