Jean-Jacques Sahel is the Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs, Europe, Middle-East & Africa for Skype.  He joined Skype from the British Government where he served UK interests in many telecoms and IT negotiations and forums, from the OECD to WTO or the ITU. He was a vice chair of the OECD anti-spam task force, and chairman of the OECD working party on the information economy.

He is the current UK signatory of the UN ITU Convention and Constitution.   Jean-Jacques has chaired the UK Chapter of the International Institute of Communications since 2009.