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Christine Maury-Panis
EVP, General Counsel and Public Affairs, Viaccess S.A, France
Christine Maury Panis is the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Public Affairs Viaccess-Orca. Prior to this role, Christine was legal counsel within the Thomson Consumer Electronics division from 1986 and was focused on the Pay TV activities within the IP section and their newly created licensing entity. Christine was promoted to Deputy General Counsel, Europe for Thomson Multimedia and managed a team of several lawyers. In 1996, Christine moved to CANAL Group to manage the launch of the digital bouquet of CANAL + and helped created CANAL + Technologies which continues to develop, protect and license technologies worldwide.
Christine joined Viaccess in 2001 to create the legal and IP department and has been vice presiding the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance, the successor to AEPOC (European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services) over the last ten years. She has been nominated in the GC Powerlist 2016,d 2018 and 2022 in France http://www.legal500.com/assets/pages/cc100/2016/france-16.html) and has been appointed by the European Intellectual Property Office as a specialist to raise awareness on IP within the European Union and as technology expert.
