Sandra Chastanet

Sandra CHASTANET is the Rightsholders & International Director of the Centre Français d’exploitation du droit de Copies (CFC), the French Collective Management Organisation representing Press content and Books. Actively involved on the international scene on all copyright issues, she was president of the Press Database and Licensing Network until 2021, an international organization dedicated to collective organizations licensing Newspapers and Periodicals. She is also a Board member of IFRRO, the International Reproduction Rights Organisation, representing the interests of authors and publishers in the text and image based sector.

Lawyer by training, Sandra holds a Master in EC law from Kingston University, UK, and a Master in Public Law from Aix-Marseille University, France. She started her career in the publishing industry, working with Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd and Plon.