Florence Devouard is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation since October 2006.

Florence was born in Versailles in France. She grew up in Grenoble and has lived in several other French cities, as well as Antwerp in Belgium and in Arizona in the United States. As of 2005, she resides in Clermont-Ferrand in France. She is married and has three children.

Florence is an engineer in agronomy at ENSAIA. She also holds a DEA in genetics and biotechnologies from INPL. She had been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasibility of polluted soil bioremediation. She was last employed in a French firm to design decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture.