Graduated from La Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Olivier-René Veillon has been Managing Director of TV Sport (Eurosport France), first thematic multilingual channel.
He took part in the creation of ARTE as the Communication, Development and Business Director of la Sept-Arte and headed up the Managing direction of its production subsidiary ARTE/VIDEO.
As the Executive Director of TV France International, he was in charge of the promotion of French audiovisual programs on the international market. International director of Téléimages group and Deputy Managing Director of MK2, Olivier-René Veillon is now film commissioner for the Paris Region, the director of the public structure “The Ile de France Film Commission”. Besides, Olivier-René Veillon teaches at “Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris” (top French management school) and at the Ibero-american University of Mexico.
He wrote several essays on visual arts and cinema, among others “The American Cinema” (Le Seuil éditeur).
