We explain how the « embedding lemma » used in the recents attacks against SIDH can be used constructively. Namely we show that every $N$-isogeny between abelian varieties over a finite field admits an efficient representation allowing for its evaluation in time polylogarithmic in $N$. Furthermore, using Vélu's formula for elliptic curves, or isogenies in the theta model for dimension g>1, this representation can be computed in time quasi-linear in $N^g$.