Stéphanie Tison has been the Deputy Director of International Affairs within the Economics Division of the Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF) since July 2016. She is responsible for the internationalization issues of companies and the monitoring of sovereignty and economic security policies, acting as the sherpa of the MEDEF Commission on Sovereignty and Economic Security of Enterprises, established at the end of 2018. Stéphanie Tison previously worked for about fifteen years within French and foreign public and private ecosystems related to diplomacy and international trade. Between 2008 and 2016, she managed the institutional and operational partnership between the Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and Business France (formerly Ubifrance) as the "Head of the CCI International Network & Relations with Export Partners" for CCI France. From 2004 to 2008, she supported the commercial development and establishment of numerous companies in the medical equipment and food ingredients sectors as part of the Economic Service of the French Embassy in Chicago, USA. This experience complemented two previous years spent in a law firm in Chicago, serving European companies entering the American market. Stéphanie Tison is a trained lawyer (DEA in Business Law and DESS in Litigation-Arbitration from the University of Paris II), was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1998, and began her career as a lawyer at the firm Thieffry & Associés in January 1999. Additionally, Stéphanie Tison was an auditor of the 2nd national session 2022-2023 of the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defense (IHEDN) as part of the major in Digital Sovereignty and Cybersecurity (SNC5).