Jean Lindner is Marketing Manager for Africa at Thales Identity & Biometric Solutions. He has a 12-year African working experience with leading biometric companies, marketing and selling civil and criminal identity solutions – such as national identity cards, passports, elections, driving licenses, health cards and the like – to African governments.

Jean holds two Masters in Business Administration (Grenoble School of Management, France and University of Ottawa, Canada) and is a certified Competitive Intelligence Professional (Academy of Competitive Intelligence, Boston, United States).

Thanks to the 3 years he has lived in South Africa, he can understand basic isiXhosa; thanks to his mother born in Mali, he would be able to count in bambara. However, despite his African influence, do not expect him to shine on the dance floor today.