Vincent Peyrègne, Chief Executive Officer of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has built his career at the crossroads of journalism, business, and technology. He has worked for private news organisations, public bodies, and government institutions across France, Switzerland, Germany, and Spain. Peyrègne assumed his role as CEO of WAN-IFRA in 2012. Before joining WAN-IFRA, he served as Head of Development at Edipresse in Switzerland (24heures, la Tribune de Genève, Le Matin, Femina, Bilan, le Temps), overseeing consumer insights and editorial product development. He also worked as a senior adviser to the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. In 1997, he founded Ifra South West Europe, the regional subsidiary responsible for French and Spanish-speaking regions, which he led for seven years. He began his journalism career at La Tribune, a French business daily, Libération, a national newspaper in Paris, and Sud-Ouest, a regional daily based in Bordeaux.