Gilles Thonet

Gilles Thonet

Gilles Thonet is the Deputy Secretary-General of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as well as the Secretary of the IEC Standardization Management Board (SMB). In his current role, Gilles oversees the IEC technical boards, the IEC strategy, legal and compliance matters, as well as external relationships with partner organizations. A technology executive with international experience in high tech industrial companies (including ABB, Eaton and Schneider Electric), Gilles has a PhD in Signal Processing from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Louvain School of Engineering, Belgium, and an MBA from Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France. 

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    International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
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    Deputy Secretary-General
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