Marc Vancoppenolle leads the Policy and Government Affairs EU & Europe function at Nokia. He and his team work with institutions and stakeholders to create a favorable political and regulatory environment that fosters broadband investments and cross-sectoral digitalization.
Marc has 30+ years of experience in the telecommunication industry. He joined Alcatel in 1991 and then Alcatel-Lucent, where he took various international and worldwide Technical, Commercial, Marketing, Communication, and Government Affairs leadership roles based in Belgium and France.
Mr. Vancoppenolle is a Belgian and French national. He holds a Master of Science, with a specialization in Telecommunication from the University of Leuven complemented with marketing studies from the University of Antwerp.
He is also a member of the DIGITALEUROPE Executive Board, Associate to Nokia’s CEO at the ERT (European Round Table for Industry), and advisor to FITCE Belgium (Forum for ICT & Media professionals). Marc has been vice-chair of the BUSINESSEUROPE Digital Economy Taskforce and a member of the board of IICB (Innovation & Incubation Center Brussels).