Dr. Paul ACKER, a 1987 PhD graduate from the ECOLE NATIONALE DES PONTS ET CHAUSSEES IN PARIS, is both Engineer and Researcher. 

After graduation from the ECOLE CENTRALE DE PARIS, and after working for a few years as structural engineer in a large Engineering Consulting firm, he joined the LABORATOIRE CENTRAL DES PONTS ET CHAUSSEES (LCPC), a leading French Civil Engineering research center in Paris. At LCPC, his first work was devoted to research on prestressed concrete elements related to  the delayed behavior of concrete (shrinkage, creep, creep-relaxation coupling) and cracking (early-age concrete cracking, drying shrinkage, autogeneous shrinkage).  In 1988, he became Director of the Department of Construction Materials at LCPC and oriented the work of his research group, in close cooperation with the construction and cement industry, to a new generation of performance-based concrete materials, known today as High Performance Concrete (HPC). His research team has contributed to a large scale Civil Engineering projects in Europe in the 90’s: the Joigny bridge (the first HPC-bridge), the Channel tunnel, the Elorn bridge, the HPC nuclear vessel in Civaux nuclear plant, the Normandy bridge (900 m free span), the Stade-de-France, the Vasco-de-Gama bridge over the Tag in Portugal, etc..  In 1993, with Veronique BAROGHEL-BOUNY, he focused his research on developing a new approach to concrete durability problems.

In 1997, Dr. Paul ACKER joined Lafarge where he has led various concrete R&D projects. Between 2001 and 2006, he managed the Department of Structured Materials at Lafarge Central Laboratory. Since 2006, he is the Scientific Director of Lafarge Central Research in l’Isle d’Abeau, near Lyon.

Over his career, Paul ACKER has supervised 16 PhD. thesis and has published more than 150 scientific papers. For his research achievements, Dr. Acker has received many distinguished French Prizes, the most prestigious being the one from the French Academy of Sciences in 1998.

On April 2003, Mr. Appert was appointed Chairman and CEO of the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP). Before, he worked as Director of the International Energy Agency’s Long-Term Cooperation and Policy Analysis Directorate since 1^st October 1999.  Prior to that, from 1998 to 1999, he was the Senior Executive Vice-President of ISIS, a technology holding company publicly listed subsidiary of the Institute Français du Pétrole (IFP).  From 1994 to 1998 he worked as Executive Vice-President of the IFP in charge of research and development activities.  From 1989 to 1994, he headed the oil and gas department of the French Industry Ministry.  Mr. Appert also served in the private sector from 1986 to 1989 as Vice-President of the Phillips group for mobile radio activity and strategy.  He was Executive Director of the French Industry Minister’s cabinet from 1984 to 1986 and was a member of Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy’s cabinet from 1981 to 1984.

Mr. Appert is a graduate of the l’Ecole Polytechnique and l’Ecole des Mines.

CURRENT POSITION Adjunct professor EPFL, Leader of the Fusion Technology - Materials Group of the Centre of Research in Plasma Physics (CRPP - EPFL), Lecturer EPFL/ETHZ

DEGREES

  1987: Engineer in Physics (EPFL)
  1990: Doctor of Science (EPFL)

EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

02/1987-10/1990: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
 Institut de Génie Atomique, Physics Department, Switzerland
 Doctorate student, research assistant

11/1990-12/1991: Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)
 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Israel
 Post-doctoral fellow

02/1992-09/1993: Université de Paris-Sud
 Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, France
 Post-doctoral fellow

10/1993-12/1993:  Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
 Laboratoire de Minéralogie-Cristallographie, France
 Research associate

04/1994-08/1997: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
 Institut de Génie Atomique, Physics Department, Switzerland
 Scientist (PROFIL grant), Lecturer EPFL

09/1997-12/2003: Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas (CRPP - EPFL))
 Fusion Technology - Materials Group, Villigen - PSI, Switzerland
 Scientist, Lecturer EPFL

01/2004-now: Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas (CRPP - EPFL) 
 Fusion Technology - Materials Group, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland
 Scientist, Adjunct professor (since 2007), Group Leader, Lecturer EPFL/ETHZ

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

1987-1990: Investigation of the structure-mechanics relationship in ordered intermetallic compounds.

1991-1997: Development and characterization of quasicrystalline materials and related applications.

1997-now: - Theoretical and experimental investigation of the effects of the damage produced by irradiation on candidate materials for fusion reactor applications (e.g. reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steels, ODS ferritic/martensitic and ferritic steels, Ti-base alloys, W-base alloys), pure metals and model alloys.
 - Qualification of candidate materials for ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), e.g. titanium-base alloys.
 - Development and characterization of new materials for use in extreme environments, e.g. fusion power reactors, advanced fission reactors, spallation neutron sources, accelerator driven systems.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS

• First experimental evidence of the four-fold dissociation mode of superdislocations in the Ni3Al ordered intermetallic compound.
• Characterization of the microstructure and mechanical properties of icosahedral quasicrystals.
• Development of new applications for quasicrystalline materials, as hard metallic coatings for metallic substrates and reinforcement particles in metal matrix composites.
• Development of new metallic coatings for fusion reactor applications.
• Development of new oxide dispersion strengthened ferritic steels and tungsten-base alloys for fusion reactor applications.

Philippe Bideau is a Director in the Paris Office of McKinsey & Company. Since joining McKinsey, twenty 26 years ago, he has primarily been involved in industrial reconfiguration projects, serving a large number of clients in France, Italy, Germany, Australia and the USA.

Philippe Bideau has also conducted a wide range of industrial performance improvement programs (e.g. cost, quality, service) with a focus on manufacturing, purchasing, logistics, and administration.  He has also developed several industrial strategies, contributed to building flexible organizations, and led investment strategy.

Philippe Bideau has created and led for 6 years the EU Operations practice and has also been the Knowledge worldwide leader of the Operations Practice for 2 years. He is also co-leading of the Metals and Mining Practice.  Examples of major engagements he recently led include:

Designing an industrial configuration for a Basic Materials producer in Europe ; transforming monocountry, multiproduct sites into monoproduct, multicountry plants. This included assessing the future customer demand, syndicating the customer base for the change, reaching consensus among country managers, building a complex, cost curve-based model to evaluate possible scenarios for the industry and the client and quantify the economic impact of the changes and finally, assisting in the implementation phase

Conducting multiyear, multisite operational performance enhancement programs, leading to quantum leaps in cost/quality/service and building the base for continuous improvements in industries like :

•   Steel
•   Aluminium
•   Paper
•   Other non ferrous metals
•   Semiconductors
•   Canned food

Conducting a number of lean diagnostics and subsequent lean transformations                       

Prior to joining McKinsey, Philippe Bideau worked for Hewlett Packard’s semiconductor division first as a Field Sales Engineer then as Distribution Manager.

Philippe Bideau holds a Master in Economic Systems from Stanford University and degrees in Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris and Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité.

Education

Ecole des Mines de Paris (Engineering University, ingénieur civil des Mines, 1969) and University of California, Berkeley (MS, 1970)

Engineering background with graduate studies in metallurgy and materials science

Professional

Joined IRSID, now ArcelorMittal Research, in 1971, and worked in the fields of solidification, continuous casting, steelmaking, environment, recycling, future studies, eco-design and sustainability

R&D and management experience, from research to technical direction

Sabbatical years at Sollac Florange, France and Nippon Steel, Hiyoshi, Japan

Presently at ArcelorMittal Maizières, part of AM R&D, in charge of sustainability R&D Group

Managing Director of CTRA (Center for the Technical Recycling of steel especially for Automotive applications)

European coordinator of the ULCOS program (6FP and RFCS)

Coordinator of the SOVAMAT initiative and of the SAM network

Honorary professor at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing

Teaching in various Universities, mainly Metz (intercultural management)

Director of the “CO₂ breakthrough technologies” program of worldsteel, Brussels for 5 years (until 2009)

Chairman of the Technical Group TGS2 of the European RFCS program

Languages

French, English, German & Japanese

Miscellaneous

More than 350 papers in Journals and Conferences and 30 patents

Various awards in France (prix Rist, prix de la Revue de Métallurgie), the USA (Charles Herty and John Chipman Awards) and Japan (Yamaoka price).  Recipient of the 2003 Bessemer Gold Medal and 1^st Bessemer Conference (2003), prix Montgolfier 2006

Member of SF2M, ISS and ISIJ

Hobbies: bicycling, reading, travelling, learning foreign languages, writing

Thierry Braine-Bonnaire
Leader of the Construction portfolio within
ArcelorMittal Global Research & Development
He joined Arcelor in 2002 as Innovation manager within Building & Construction Support, the corporate marketing structure for construction.
He moved to ArcelorMittal Global Research and Development in 2008, to take the leadership of the Construction Portfolio.

Before joining Arcelor, he has been working as
-Head of the Fire Safety Department of CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment, www.cstb.fr),
-Project manager in the Dam department of the engineering office Coyne et Bellier (www.coyne-et-bellier.fr).

As of April 1^st, 2008 Bruno Chenal is named Director Technology and Innovation at Alcan Global Alcan Global Aerospace, Transportation and Industry (Alcan Global ATI), Engineered Products. This business is a global leader serving key aerospace customers with advanced aluminium solutions for current and future aircrafts and other value-added market applications. Global ATI has manufacturing plants in Europe and US as well as unique R&D and Innovation competencies and capabilities.

He is graduated in Civil Engineering and has a PhD in Material Science. He joined Pechiney in 1987, then the Alcan Company, where he has held different R&D management positions.

Between 2004 and 2008 he is R&D Program Director for the Alcan Specialty Sheet Business, a key player in aluminium packaging, automotive and customised industrial coil and sheet solutions.

Throughout his career, Bruno Chenal has developed more than 30 patents and received outstanding Research Awards. He has played an essential role in establishing fruitful collaborations and joint developments with customers in various market applications including packaging, automotive, heat exchangers and more recently aerospace.

J.M. Combes is currently Deputy G. M. of Saint-Gobain Conceptions Verrières.

-          After a PhD in Material Sciences at Paris VI University (85-88), he worked at Stanford University (USA) in Applied School of Earth Sciences.

First, as a post-doctoral fellow (88-89), and thus, as research associate (89-90). During that period he studied and published papers about relationships between crystal-chemistry, glass/melt structures and associated physical properties.

-          He started its carrier in the industry in 1990 when he entered Saint-Gobain Group. He started to work in R&D at Saint-Gobain Research on improving glass quality through more efficient making processes; and developing automotive and building glasses.

-          From 1995-1998, he was in charge of Furnace design for flat glass Division at SGCV.

-          From 1998-2002; he was having an operational position flat glass fabrication (building and automotive) at Saint-Gobain Glass.

From 2000 to 2002, he was part of reconstruction project of float production-line (Chantereine, France).

-          From 2003 to 2010, he has been Director of Furnace Design in Saint-Gobain Conceptions Verrières. He was in charge of the Furnace Design Department of Saint-Gobain, in collaboration with engineering teams of Saint-Gobain 4 glass divisions (195 industrial furnaces).

     The main target of this department in SGCV is to reduce the cost of molten glass and improve its quality through the design of economical and innovative furnaces in respect with environmental regulations and control of the manufacturing processes.

Personal Information

AGE : 52 Years old

Married, 4 children

Tel: 0607398113

Education

1981 Ingénieur civil des Mines de St Etienne

1982 Ingénieur du Génie atomique (Saclay)

1986 Docteur ingénieur en Métallurgie (Mines de St Etienne)

2003 Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches en Science Physique (Université de Lille)

Employment Experience

2009 -  Director of  R&D AREVA NP BU Equipements

2008-2009 - Expert Matérials et Enrichiment AREVA NC

2005 –2008 - Nuclear Safeguard Inspector AIEA Vienne

1995 –2005 – Head of Laboratory, Deputy Head of service, expert senior for materials and metallurgy, CEA Pierrelatte (Enrichissement)

1995 – Head of Metallurgy Laboratory Aubert et Duval, Les Ancizes

1986 –1994 -  R& D metallurgy engineer, Usinor and Ascométal

Born 1952 in Stockholm, Sweden

Education

MBA, Stockholm School of Economics, (International Economics), 1975

Professional Experience

National Board of Industry (energy forecasting and analysis), 1977-79

Ministry of Housing and Ministry of Industry (energy-related issues), 1979-1986

Swedish Competition Authority, Head of Energy Division, 1986-1994

Permanent Swedish Representation to the European Union, Brussels, Counsellor for Industrial Affairs, 1994-1995

Ministry of Industry and Trade, Deputy Director of Energy Policy, 1995-97

Federation of Swedish Industries, Programme Director of Energy Programme, 1997-2003

Ministry of Sustainable Development, Head of Division for Energy, 2003-2006

Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, Head of Energy Division, 2006-2009

International Energy Agency, Director, Sustainable Policy and Technology, 2009-today

Marc Duval-Destin is PSA peugeot Citroën's Vice President for Research & Advanced Engineering since 1st of July 2009.
He is responsible for developing the Group's strategy concerning technology portfolio, new powertrains and vehicles.

Marc joined PSA Peugeot Citroen in 2001 as Telematic project manager. He was in charge of ITS development and launched in 2002 PSA's  original solution for emergency call. 
PSA e-call service is currently deployed throughout 9 European countries, and manages successfully 7 different languages between customers and rescue services.

Marc also served in the field of passive safety during 3 years. He was responsible for the design and validation of crash protection for Peugeot and Citroen cars. He led PSA's teams in their effort for deploying the car maker's ambitious policy for occupant and pedestrian protection until 2008.
During the last 2 years, he was in charge of advanced projects for future cars. He was one of the key players of the strong evolutions in car design that PSA engages for meeting its commitments for reducing CO2 emissions.

Marc has a strong background both in Engineering and Physics.
He graduated from Paris Polytechnique school, and the French Space & Aeronautics Engineering school in Toulouse.
He holds a PhD in theoretical physics.

François Fuentes holds a degree in Engineering from Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures.

After a year in the French Navy and post-graduate research work for Electricité de France, François joined the Engineering Division of the Air Liquide Group in 1988 (Champigny, France) where he held different assignments within the Process Department. In 1995, he joined Air Liquide Process & Construction in Houston as Project Manager, supervising the Engineering, Procurement & Construction of two large Hydrogen and CO plants.

François returned to the French based Engineering Division in 1997 where he was H2/CO Product Manager and later on Development Director in charge of new cryogenic Air Separation Units.

From 2000, François has been with R&D, first as Production Group Manager and later on as Program Director of the Gas Production Technologies domain. Since 2008, he is Scientific Director, supervising research programs related to gas production, separation and conversion to fuels and chemicals.

François is a member of the Air Liquide college of Fellows and is author of numerous patents.

Dr.E. Gaffet is Research Director / Senior Scientist at CNRS (France).
He has authored (and co-authored) more than 245 publications and 390 conferences in the field of Nanomaterials (nanostructured powder by synthesis by mechanosynthesis, dense nanomaterials by mechanically activated Spark Plasma Sintering, grain size dependence of physico - chemical properties, responsible and secured developement of nanotechnology/nanomaterials).
He has been elected en 2003 at the European Academy of Sciences for outstanding contribution & lasting developments in the field of materials science & fundamental work in the field of synthesis and
characterization of nanomaterials"
He is the chairman of the physico - chemical Community of practice of the OECD / Working Party on Nanomaterials.
He is member of the scientific committee "Nanotechnology & NanoSystems / P2N" for the French Research National Agency (ANR).

CV Professor Stephen M. Hsu

He is currently a Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at the George Washington University, leading the Energy research effort. Prof. Hsu received his BS from Virginia Tech and MS and PhD from Pennsylvania State University. He spent over twenty five years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as a Sr. Scientist and a Sr. Executive leading several national programs in advanced materials, metrology, nanotechnology. He was the Chair of VAMAS Steering Committee from 2005-2007, leading standardization of advanced materials among the G8 countries.  He is also the Vice-chairman of the International Energy Agency, Implementing Agreement on Advanced materials for Transportation and a technical leader on surface technology to increase fuel economy. 

He published over 250 papers, edited over 20 books/special publications, has 7 US patents, and has given over 200 invited talks and 40 Plenary Lectures in international conferences.  

His current Research interests are energy efficiency technologies working with government agencies and industrial companies on fuel economy increase, biomimetic surface textures; nanotechnology; nanocomposites, wind, energy efficient buildings, self-healing and self-repair materials.

He is a member of ASME, ASM, AcerS, ASM, SAE, and AICHE. He is a Fellow of ASME and a Fellow of STLE. He has received numerous awards: the International Award from STLE (highest technical award of the society), Captain Alfred E. Hunt Memorial Medal, Al Sonntag Award; Department of Commerce Bronze Medal, Department of Commerce Silver Medal for leadership in international standards; Federal Asian Pacific American Council Award for Outstanding leadership, Eshbach Society 1992 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Award, Northwestern University, President, Wear Conference Inc., Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, Foreign expert evaluation referee for the European Science Foundation, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Sweden, UK.

As Director-General of the CANMET Materials Technology Laboratory, Dr. Jackman manages a multi-faceted research group with a staff of about 150 and an annual budget of about $14 million.  The facility is Canada=s main federal R&D laboratory for metallurgical, ceramics and concrete research.  Dr. Jackman is accountable and has authority for all actions regarding strategic planning, staffing, equipment acquisitions and facilities maintenance, and is signatory to all research contracts.  She coordinates with other organizations in the federal government and private sector on priority issues such as climate change and value-added processing.  Dr. Jackman is also Chair of the Government Secretariat for the Canadian Lightweight Materials Research Initiative, and is Coordinator of the AUTO21 NCE Materials and Manufacturing Theme.  Previous positions include Deputy Director of MTL, Senior Science Advisor to the ADM of Minerals and Metals, research program manager and research scientist in the field of microstructural characterization.  MTL is a matrix organization with a management team of five research program managers, seven functional group leaders and a business office.  It makes rigorous use of project management techniques.

Rod Janssen is the Interim Executive Director of the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE). As an expert in energy efficiency policy, he has worked in this field in various capacities since the 1970s at the governmental, international and non-governmental levels.

At the International Energy Agency in the 1980s, he led a project that was the first international study to evaluate energy efficiency programmes.  He has been involved in Europe-wide energy efficiency and renewable energy policy analysis for two decades (including extensively for the Commission in the 1990s) and he has also worked on many energy and climate change programmes in economies in transition from Central and Eastern Europe as well as in developing countries on all continents. 

Mr. Janssen is a member of the Board of the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, one of the founding organisations of BPIE and he is a well-known authority on buildings, being the chairman of the BPIE advisory committee and having written the 2004 report on Energy Efficiency in Buildings in Europe for EuroACE.

Maïté Jauréguy-Naudin is the program manager of the Energy program at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Ifri) since October 1st, 2006.
She  joined Ifri and the Centre Français sur les États-Unis (CFE/IFRI) in September 2004 as a visiting fellow. Ms Jauréguy-Naudin was then a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC, focusing most particularly on space policy issues within the " Homeland Security Program ". Prior to this position, Ms Jauréguy-Naudin was with the Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales, then with the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches d’EDF before to join Thalès/ Airborne Systems, conducting R&D in the field of Aerospace and Physics. Ms Jauréguy-Naudin received her Ph.D in applied physics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace.

Juliet Jiang’s Biography

Jean-Pierre Joly is leading INES (Institut National de l’Energie Solaire) as the General Director. This Institute 3 years old has now 150 scientists located in the French Alps and is the main Research Institute in France devoted to Solar Energy. The institute covers the whole chain of Solar Energy Development from Silicon Purification to Building integration and is involved in both Photovoltaics and Thermal Solar.

He has been graduated by Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble (Diplôme d’ingénieur) in 1975 and by Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble (PhD) in 1978. He is also Research Fellow (Directeur de Recherche) of CEA

Acting in the field of semiconductors for more than 30 years, he is a specialist of Silicon working first for electronic devices and recently for Photovoltaic devices.
He has successfully leaded Research teams at LETI and recently at INES. He is a pioneer of the so-called SOI (Silicon On Insulator) wafers and has contributed to the study of impurities behaviour in Silicon and to their impact on device performances. 

Prof. Spomenka Kobe is the Head of Department for Nanostructured materials at Jožef Stefan Institute and the National Research Program leader.  She is an expert in magnetism and magnetic materials.
In the course of her career she has worked in a number of areas including: powder metallurgy, nano-crystalline powders, powder characterization, hard- and soft-magnetic materials, ferrite ceramics, Alnico alloys, intermetallic alloys, (Sm-Co, Nd-Fe-B, Sm2Fe17 nitrides), magnetic thick and thin films, magnetic nanostructures (nanorods, nanotubes), biological effects of the magnetic fields, quasicrystals for hydrogen storage, and magnetocaloric materials e.g. intermetallic alloys for refrigeration at room temperature.
The emphasis of her research has been on studying the relationship between the processing on the development of microstructure and the resulting magnetic properties. This has involved microstructure characterization using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). She is also familiar with various magnetic measurement techniques (VSM, SQUID, Mössbauer spectroscopy) as well as XRD, DTA, DSC, FTIR, AFM/MFM, etc.
Her applied research has included the development and large-scale production of high-coercivity Sr hexaferrites, high-stability low-loss NiZn ferrites, high-permeability MnZn ferrites, high-coercivity Alnico magnets (sintered and cast) and intermetallic alloys based on Sm-Co (SmCo5, Sm2Co17) and Nd-Fe-B. Work with industry has involved product development, quality control and troubleshooting at the factory-floor level.
As a visiting scientist she spent one year at the University of Twente, Holland (1989/1990) and 6 months at the University of Western Australia, Australia (1996/1997).
Prof. Kobe is the recipient of two State Awards for Scientific Research and two Innovation Awards from industry for the successful transfer of technology. Her scientific work is documented in more than 100 refereed publications, tree chapters in a book and invited talks at international conferences. Her applied research achievements include 4 patents (2 EP), 3 innovations and 5 successful transfers of technology to the industrial production.
Work experience since:
2009 Member of the Scientific Board of “Jozef Stefan” Institute
2009 Leader of the National Research Programme “Nanostructured Materials”
2004 Member of the Executive Board of Slovenian Engineering Association SATENA.
2003 Leader of the National Research Programme “Nanostructured Materials”
2002 Head of Department
2002 Scientific Advisor
2002 Member of the Postgraduate School “Jožef Stefan”
2001 European Expert and Evaluator
1999 Leader of the National Research Programme “Powder Metallurgy and Intermetalic Alloys
1997 Habilitation at the Faculty of Natural and Technical Science, University of Ljubljana

Curriculum Vitae of Dr Monique Hélène LEVY

Dr Monique Hélène Lévy, a French national, holds a PhD in Sciences (chemistry), and a PhD in Arts (philosophy).

She spent most of her professional career in industry, in technical, marketing and management positions of increasing responsibility in the largest worldwide chemical companies: Exxon, Monsanto, DSM, Honeywell, Saint-Gobain. Her responsibilities have lead her to develop several new materials and new products in different market segments and in the whole world.  

She also managed a worldwide association, CIB the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, and a European association, PU Europe, which she created and which represents the interests of the polyurethane insulation industry in construction. 

In 2009 she joined the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, in the Unit "Value Added Materials".

Her areas of expertise are: chemicals, polymers, rubbers and rubber chemicals, thermoplastic elastomers, insulation, automotive, construction, energy efficiency and sustainable development.

She also worked extensively in European standardisation.

She has authored a very large number of publications (scientific, technical, strategy and policy papers) mainly in the area of chemistry, polymers and additives, materials, insulation and energy efficiency.

Löhe, Detlef, Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Vice President Research and Information
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
   Kaiserstraße 12
   76131 Karlsruhe

23.09.1949 born in Hennef/Sieg
marital status: married, 3 children
1970 – 1975 Study of mechanical engineering at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
1976 – 1977 Member of scientific staff at Institut für Werkstoffkunde I (IWK I), Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
1980 Doctor’s degree
1981 - 1990 Appointment as Akademischer Rat at IWK I and head of the working group „Microstructure and mechanical behaviour“ at IWK I
1991 - 1994 University professor (C3) for materials science at Universität-GH Paderborn
since 1994 Universitätsprofessor (Ordinarius) at the Institut für Werkstoffkunde I of Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
1996 – 2000 Speaker of the DFG-Graduate Research Center “Technical Ceramics” at Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
1998 – 2000 Dean of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
1998 – 2002 Member of the Senate Council of the DFG for matters of collaborative research centers (SFB)
2003 – 2006 Speaker of the SFB 499 „Design, production and quality assurance of molded microparts constructed of metals and ceramics“
2003 - 2009 Member of the Senate of the DFG
2004 - 2009  Member of the DFG-Senate Committee on Strategic Planning
2005 - 2009 Vice President for Research, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Since 2006 Member of the bmbf-discussion group for the concerns of the European Institute of Technology (EIT)
2008 - 2009
since 2009
 Member of the executive board of the Research Center Karlsruhe (FZK)
Vice President for Research and Information, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)

Member of the Kuratorium Fraunhofer IWM Freiburg
Member of the Kuratorium Fraunhofer ICT Berghausen (chair)
Member of the Beirat Stiftung Institut für Werkstofftechnik, Bremen
Member of the DFG nomination committee for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz award

Francis Mer, 71 is graduate of Ecole Polytechnique. He also persued further engineering studies at the Ecole des Mines.

In October 1970, Francis Mer joined the group Saint-Gobain Pont-à-Mousson and was responsible for Saint-Gobain Industries Strategic Planning (1971), then Manager of Saint-Gobain Industries (1974-1978) before being appointed in September 1978 Vice-President of Saint-Gobain  Pont-à-Mousson, in charge of industrial policy. Il July 1982, he was then promoted Chairman an Chief Executive Officier of Pont-à-Mousson s.a; and head of Saint Gobain’s Pipe and Engineering Division.

In September 1986, when the French State, the main shareholder, decided the merging of Usinor and Sacilor, Francis Mer became chairman of the new steel group.

The Governement had assigned Francis Mer the mission to carry out the privatisation of Usinor Sacilor achieved in July 1995. Francis Mer was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the privatised Usinor Sacilor Group on October, 10, 1995.

He was also appointed Chairman of Cockerill Sambre in April 1999.

From December 1990 to 1997, Francis Mer was chairman of Eurofer the European steelmakers association. From October 1997 to October 1998, Francis Mer was chairman of the International Iron an Steel Institute (IISI).

He has been President of the French Steel Federation (FFA) from 1988 to 2002, President of the National Technical Research Association (ANRT) from 1991 to 2002, the EPE (Entreprise pour l’Environnement), and the Cercle de l’Industrie.

He became co-chairman of the board of Arcelor, the company issued from the merger of Arbed, Aceralia and Usinor in March 2002.

Francis Mer has been Minister of economy, finance and Industry from May, 7,  2002 to March 31,  2004.

Since January 16 2007, Francis Mer is chairman of the board of Safran

David J. Modeen is Director of External Affairs for the Nuclear Power sector at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He has over 30 years of operational, technical, and policy experience in the nuclear field. He is responsible for managing communications and interactions with the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy, Idaho National Laboratory, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, Nuclear Energy Institute, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Research, and others. Modeen is also a member of the board of managers for the Battelle Energy Alliance (operator of the Idaho National Laboratory) and a member of the board of advisors for UNC/Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center.
Modeen joined EPRI in 2003 as Vice President, Nuclear Power Sector and Chief Nuclear Officer, a position he held until 2007. In this role, he led EPRI’s Nuclear Power technology R&D program, working closely with both domestic and international advisors.
Previously, Modeen was a Director at the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington, DC, with responsibilities in a variety of areas, including engineering, fire protection, risk assessment and severe accident analyses, security/access authorization, and training.
Prior to his Washington experience, Modeen spent seven years with the Portland General Electric Company as a Senior Engineer; he obtained a Senior Reactor Operator certificate and stood watch as a Shift Technical Advisor at the Trojan Nuclear Plant.
Modeen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from Iowa State. He served five years in the U.S. Navy as a submarine warfare officer. Modeen has served on the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations Advisory Council and is a registered nuclear and mechanical professional engineer in the state of Oregon.

Academic Background
(1977) University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, Metals and Materials Engineering, Master
Doctor Thesis: Study on Ni-Containing Cryogenic Steels (1981, University of Tokyo)

Professional Career (as of September 1, 2010)
(1977) Assistant, The Department of Materials Science, The Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
(1981) Moved to Tsukuba Branch, National Research Institute for Metals (NRIM)
(1985) Visiting Scholar, The University of California, Berkeley
(1993) Senior Researcher, Mechanical Properties Division, NRIM
(1997) 800MPa High Strength Steel Task Force Leader, Frontier Research Center for Structural Materials, NRIM
(2001) Sub Group Leader, 3rd Sub Group Materials Creation Research Group, Materials Engineering Laboratory, NIMS
(2002) General Manager, Steel Research Center and Director, Metallurgical Processing Group, NIMS
(2006-) Coordinating Director, Environment and Energy Materials, NIMS

Fields of Study
 Microstructure and Deformation,/Fracture in Metallic Materials
 Deformation /Fracture at Low Temperature in Ferrous Alloys, Titanium Alloys and other metals
 Recyclable Materials Design (Balanced Performance of Material's Properties)

Papers Published
 225 Originals, 493 Proceedings (refereed), and 90 Reviews

Patents
 Domestic: 64 Applications, 24 Registrations, and Oversee: 45 Applications

Awards
ISIJ Scientific Achievement Merit Prize (2010) “Trade-off balancing of low environmental load and high performance”, ISIJ Sawamura Paper Award (2007)”Morphology Control of Copper Sulfide in Strip Casting of Low Carbon Steel”, and other 10.

Patarakin Oleg Oktyabrevich, Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics, Deputy Director of the Directorate for Scientific and Technical Complex of the State Corporation “Rosatom” was born in Russia in 1951.

Dr. Patarakin graduated the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (currently - National Research Nuclear University MEPhI) in 1974 with qualification of an engineer-physicist in the field of experimental nuclear physics. After completion of his post-graduate studies, he worked in the National Research Centre (NRC) "Kurchatov Institute". In the NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Dr. Patarakin started as a research fellow and rose to become a head of a laboratory.

Dr. Patarakin worked on various experiments that were performed at both Russian and foreign installations. These experiments were connected with physics of particles and nuclei studies. He is a co-author of more than 50 publications in peer reviewed scientific journals.

During the period 1998 – 2004, Dr. Patarakin served as Chief Expert and Head of Division of the Ministry of Education and Science. Since January 2004 he served as an executive of the Ministry of Atomic Energy (later – the State Corporation “Rosatom”). As of April 2010, Dr. Patarakin is Deputy Director of the Directorate for Scientific and Technical Complex.

Dr. Patarakin conducts teaching of students as a professor of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
• Professor at Ecole des Mines de Nancy, one of the top ten French “Grandes écoles d’ingénieurs”.
• Chairman of a sub-project (7 industrial and academic partners, devoted to breakthrough hydrogen-based steelmaking) of ULCOS (Ultra-low CO2 steelmaking, a European R&D program funded by EU and industry, 48 partners, 75 M€ budget, 2004-10, aiming at decreasing CO2 emissions of the steelmaking industry by at least 50%).
• Expert appointed by the French national agency for research evaluation, AERES.
• Expert appointed by CNRS to the French national alliance for the coordination of energy research, ANCRE.
• Responsible of various national collaborative research programs.
• Member of various societies (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, Société française de métallurgie et de matériaux, Société française de génie des procédés, Association française de séchage dans l’industrie et l’agriculture).

EDUCATION
• 1981: Master degree “Diplôme d’Ingénieur civil des Mines”, Nancy, France.
• 1987: PhD in Materials Engineering, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France, “Mathematical modeling of the iron ore sintering process”.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER
• 1988-2010: Research scientist with CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), a civil servant position, appointed to the Materials Engineering lab at the School of Mines of Nancy. This lab is now part of Institut Jean Lamour, 450-people and the biggest French research center dedicated to materials.
• 2010-: Professor at Ecole des Mines, Nancy-Université (School of Mines of Nancy, tenure position)

AWARDS
• Champion H. Mathewson Award, 2003, granted by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, USA.
• Best paper award, 2001, Revue de Métallurgie, France.

Frans Spaepen is John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University. He got his undergraduate degree, in Metallurgical Engineering, at the K.U. Leuven in 1971, and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1975. He joined the faculty of the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard in 1977 as Assistant Professor, was appointed Associate Professor in 1981, and Full Professor in 1983. In 1984 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven, and in 2000-01 a Humboldt visitor in Köln and Jülich. From 1990 till 1998 he was Director of the Harvard Materials Research Laboratory/Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Since 2002 he is the Director of the Rowland Institute at Harvard. In 2008-09 he is Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

His research interests span a wide range of experimental and theoretical topics in materials science, such as amorphous metals and semiconductors (viscosity, diffusion, mechanical properties), the structure and thermodynamics of interfaces (crystal/melt, amorphous/crystalline semiconductors, grain boundaries), mechanical properties of thin films, the perfection of silicon crystals for metrological applications, and colloidal systems as models for the study of dynamics and defects in crystals and glasses.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (Chairman, Division of Materials Physics, 1992), of the Materials Research Society (Councillor: 1986-89; 1990-93; Chairman, Program Committee, 1993-2000), and of the TMS-AIME. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the Vlaamse Academie van Wetenschappen en Kunsten, an External Member of the Max-Planck Society, and a member of ASM. He is co-editor of Solid State Physics, and an editorial board member of a number of materials science journals.

Detlef Stolten studied metallurgy/ceramics at and later received his PhD
from the University of Technology at Clausthal/Germany. He worked for
over 10 years in the industry as a scientist first with the Robert Bosch
GmbH, Stuttgart and then with Daimler Benz/Dornier, Friedrichshafen.
Since 1998 he has been with the Juelich Research Center as the
Director of the Institute for Energy and Climate Research – Fuel Cells.
Two years later he became a full professor for Fuel Cell Technology at
the University of Technology Aachen, Germany. His research activities
are focused on energy process engineering for DMFC, HT-PEFC and
SOFC systems, i.e. electrochemistry, stack technology, reforming
process and systems engineering as well as systems analysis. Fostering
the cooperation between research and industry he was in charge of the
NRW - Fuel Cell
Network from 2000 through 2005. He is a Member of the Board of the Research Association
of Electrochemistry (AGEF) in Germany. He represents Germany in the Executive
Committee of the IEA Annex Advanced Fuel Cells and has been a member of the Advisory
Council of the European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform and its
Implementation Panel since 2004. He chaired the Steering Panel for the Strategic Research
Agenda of the Platform and was chairman of the Quality Assurance Panel for the
Implementation Plan. Being a member of the Technology/Engineering Working Group he
has been contributing to the GROCC (Global Roundtable on Climate Change), Columbia
University, New York since 2005. He represents the Helmholtz-Community within the
advisory board of the ‘Programmgesellschaft Nationale Organisation Wasserstoff- und
Brennstoffzellentechnologie GmbH (NOW)’, the major agency for project funding of the
German Federal Ministries for Transport, Economics and Research. He represents
Germany in the Executive Committee of the IEA Annex Advanced Fuel Cells and is cochairman
of IEA’s Expert Group on Science for Energy. He is on the advisory board of the
journal Fuel Cells and the Chair of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference which was held
in May, 2010. Prof Stolten is the Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Energy
Process Engineering (2nd ICEPE) to be held in June, 2011.

Dr. Jean-Pierre Sursock is Senior Technical Advisor in the Nuclear Sector at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He is the senior representative of the EPRI Nuclear Power Sector in Europe. In his role, he is seeking and developing collaborative projects with European research organizations and he is leading the development of a strategy for the nuclear sector in Europe and the Middle East.
For the last three years, Dr Sursock was the Executive Director of nuclear Technical Advisory Service, responsible for members and client relations and technology transfer worldwide. . Dr Sursock has been with EPRI since 1976 and has held various technical and management responsibilities in the areas of nuclear safety assessment and probabilistic risk analyses.
Dr Sursock holds a doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Paris and PhD. in theoretical Physics form the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of over 140 technical papers and reports in the areas of nuclear thermal-hydraulic, risk analyses, fire protection modeling, nuclear simulators Standards and High Energy Physics and Co-author of a Reference Technical Book: “Pressure Drop Technology for Design and Analysis”

Title & Affiliation:

Fellow, Toyota Central Research & Development Laboratories, Inc.

Education:

1994 Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois

1993 M.S. Ceramic Science, University of Illinois 

1982 M.Eng. Metallurgy, University of Tokyo

1980 B.Eng. Metallurgy, University of Tokyo

Professional Experience

Research Scientist, Toyota Central Research & Development Laboratories, Inc. (1982-present)

Professor, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan (2006-present)

Senior Executive Engineer, Toyota Research Institute of North America (2008-2011)

Research Interests:

Synthesis and processing of electronic ceramics with controlled microstructures

Energy conversion-related materials and devices and their processing

Honors:

2002 Japanese Society of Powder Metallurgy, Award for Innovatory Research

2004 The American Ceramic Society, Corporate Environmental Achievement Award

2005 Ceramic Society of Japan, Award for Academic Achievements

Selected Publications:

1) "Chemical and Piezoresistive Microanalyses at the Interface of RuO₂–Glass Diffusion Pairs," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 93, 481-487 (2010).

2) "Reactive-templated grain growth processing for lead free piezoelectric ceramics," Adv. Appl. Ceram., 105, 55 (2006).

3) "The Formation Mechanism of a Textured Ceramic of Thermoelectric [Ca₂CoO₃]_0.62[CoO₂] on b-Co(OH)₂ Templates Through In-situ Topotactic Conversion", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 6367 (2005).

4)  "Lead-free piezoceramics", Nature, 432, Nov.4, 84 (2004).

5) "Topotactic synthesis of highly-textured thermoelectric cobaltites," J. Mater. Chem., 13, 1865 (2003).

6) "Thermoelectric Properties of Highly Textured (ZnO)₅In₂O₃ Ceramics,", J. Mater. Chem., 11, 2324 (2001).

7) "Unidirectionally Textured CaBi₄Ti₄O₁₅ Ceramics by the Reactive Templated Grain Growth with an Extrusion," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 39, 5577 (2000).

8) “Crystalline-oriented Piezoelectric Bulk Ceramics with a Perovskite-type Structure,” J. Korean Phys. Soc., 32, S1217 (1998).

9) "Antiferroelectric-ferroelectric Switching and Induced Strains for Sol-gel Derived Lead Zirconate Thin Layers," J. Appl. Phys., 75, 3017 (1994).

10) "Lead-Oxide Coatings on Sol Gel-derived Lead Lanthanum Zirconium Titanate Thin-layers for Enhanced Crystallization into the Perovskite Structure," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 77, 1242 (1994).

Carbone Lorraine Group (since 1986) : Research and Development Engineer (1986-89), Research and Development Manager (1989-91),Engineering Departements Manager (Research and Development, Design Department, Projects Management and Business Department) (1991-94),Industrial General Manager of Pagny's plant (Production, Research and Development, Design Department, Purchases) (1994-97), Pagny's plant Director (1997-00), Carbone Lorraine Chemical Equipment Division Director (2000-07),
Member of Carbone Lorraine Executive Board, Group Vice President Chemical Equipment and Electrical Applications Equipment Goods, Group Vice President Purchasing and Information Systems (2005), Group Executive Vice President (2007), Group Chief Operating Officer (2008), Chief Executive Officer (since 2009).

Jan van der Lee is Director of the Materials Ageing Institute (MAI) at the les Renardières site of EDF R&D in Moret sur Loing, France. In this capacity he directs the activities of some 80 scientists and engineers in an international collaborative R&D program on materials ageing with participation from EDF (France), EPRI (USA), TEPCO, KANSAI (Japan) and British Energy (UK) with an annual budget of 9 million Euros.
He joined EDF at his current position in 2009. Prior to that he was an Associate Professor at Mines-ParisTech, a position he still holds with involvement in academic activities and supervision of PhD theses. Trained in theoretical hydrodynamics and chemistry, he created the Reactive Hydrodynamics Group at Mines-ParisTech with applications in leaching, material corrosion, radioactive waste storage, purification of nuclear circuits and degradation of materials.
He received his M.S. degree from the Amsterdam University and his Ph.D. from Mines-ParisTech (formally Paris School of Mines). Born in Amsterdam, Dr. van der Lee is fluent in English, French German and Dutch.

Born in 1954, Claude Vanvoren obtained his Engineer Degree in Electrochemistry and Electrometallurgy from National Polytechnic Institute in Grenoble (France). After a Master Degree in Solid State Electrochemistry, he achieved his PhD in Mineral Chemistry working on CO disproportionation.

Dr Vanvoren joined Pechiney in 1981 as a carbon research engineer and soon became head of the carbon department of the Aluminium Pechiney Research Center. During this period, his main fields of interest were carbonaceous raw material as well as paste plant and bake oven technology development.

After 6 years in R&D, he held several operational positions as Production Manager in Auzat, St Jean and Tomago Aluminium (Australia) before being appointed Technical Plant Manager of this plant in 1995.

Claude returned to France to become General Manager of the Aluminium Pechiney Smelter Technology Center (LRF) in St Jean de Maurienne in 2000 where he led the development of the new AP50 Pechiney reduction cell technology.

After successive acquisition of Pechiney by Alcan and Alcan by Rio Tinto, Claude successfully led two integration processes between the former Alcan, Alusuisse, Comalco and Pechiney legacy companies as Vice President, Research and Development.

Mid 2009, Claude was appointed Vice President Technology and R&D, Rio Tinto Alcan, managing RTA R&D Centers of Excellence in Canada (Saguenay), France (Saint Jean de Maurienne and Gardanne) and Australia (Brisbane) as well as corresponding Process Engineering organization in France (Voreppe, Gardanne) and Australia (Brisbane) with the responsibility of delivering industry benchmark Technology Packages both in Bauxite & Alumina and Primary Metal.

Claude hold professional memberships in the Metallurgical Society (USA), Canadian Institute of Mining, Industrial Research Institute (USA) and the “Cercle des Partenaires”, Industrial partners to the French “Académie des Technologies”.

Claude is married to Dany and is father of two sons.

EXPERIENCE

Since Oct 2010  EDF R&D (Clamart, France)
  Vice President - Generation & Engineering

• Elaboration and overall management of the R&D Programmes in the following areas related to Generation and Engineering (for the EDF Group) : Nuclear, Fossil fuels, Hydro and Environment

• Oversight of  the R&D Projects and activities; management of  the R&D entities (10 Departments and Labs) with partnerships and cooperation with R&D centres worldwide

2008 to 2010 UniStar Nuclear Energy (Baltimore, Maryland USA)
  Executive Vice President

• UNE, is developing a fleet of advanced nuclear power plants (EPR) in the USA, with the Calvert Cliffs 3 Project as lead Plant (ie project financing in the framework of the US DOE LG Programme, licensing with US NRC, engineering, construction and operation of US EPRs developed with AREVA, BECHTEL and ALSTOM)

2005 to 2007 EDF – Nuclear Engineering Division
  Electro Mechanical Department (CNEPE – Tours, France)
  Site Vice President – Managing Director
• CNEPE is in charge of systems & components of the ‘Conventional Island’ (inc. turbo gen. set) and of the ‘Balance of Plant’ (inc. cooling towers, pumping stations, …) of NPPs
o Maintenance of the 58 operating NPPs (EDF nuclear fleet)
o Design studies for the French EPR (Flamanville 3)
o Back up for overall or detailed design of NPPs developed in the framework of EDF Projects, worldwide (France, China, USA, UK, …)

2004 to 2005 SOFINEL – Subsidiary of EDF & AREVA
 Montrouge (France) and Erlangen (Germany)
 Senior Vice President - EPR Engineering Director
• Set up, organisation and staffing of the engineering entities in charge of the detailed design of the Balance of Nuclear Island for the EPR (Finland & France)
• Entities set up in France (EDF-CNEN) and in Germany (AREVA-NP) are in charge of detailed design studies, for both projects, related to: Civil Works, Lay out, Piping, HVAC, system engineering, general operation, components, …

2000 to 2003 EDF – Nuclear Engineering Division
 Engineering Centre for Decommissioning and Environment (CIDEN)
 Engineering & Realisations Department (Lyon, France)
 Head of the Department
• Set up, organisation and staffing of the Department, in charge of engineering studies for: Decommissioning / Deconstruction of NPPs (1 FBR, 1 PWR, 6 GGR), Nuclear waste management & back end of the fuel cycle and Environmental impact of NPP radioactive releases

1998 to 2000 EDF – Nuclear Engineering Division
Nuclear Fuel Department - SEPTEN (Lyon, France)
 Head of the Department
• Set up & Organisation of the Department, in charge of : fuel products (fuel assembly design), with different manufacturers, assessment of fuel management schemes (economics, technical feasibility, impact on plant operation, …) for the EDF fleet and assessment of different strategies for the back end of the fuel cycle (intermediate storage, deep repository, …)

1995 to 1998 EDF – R&D Division
 Reactor Physics Department (Clamart, France)
 Head of the Department
• Department in charge of the development and validation of the modeling tools used at EDF in Reactor Physics (neutronics, thermal hydraulics and general operation)

1991 to 1994 EDF – Nuclear Generation Division
 PWRs Fuel Management Group (Paris, France)
 Group Manager
• Set up & organisation of the Group, in charge of the fuel management for the EDF PWRs, i.e. : fuel shuffling, safety report, start up tests, core follow up during the cycle, calibration of protection systems, …

1986 to 1990 EDF – R&D Division
 Reactor Physics Department (Clamart, France)
• Reactor Physics engineer, project manager and «Neutronics Codes » group manager

1982 to 1986 EDF – “Creys-Malville” Nuclear Power Plant (Int’l Project)
 Commissariat à L’Energie Atomique (CEA – Cadarache, France)
• Start up engineer (on site) in charge of: approach to criticality, control rod worth measurements, power increase to full power, … for the Creys Malville power plant (FBR, 1200MW)

EDUCATION
• Graduate from the Ecole Centrale Paris, in 1981 (degree in Theoretical & Quantum Physics)

Michel Wurth, 56, was previously Vice President of the Group Management Board of Arcelor and Deputy CEO, with responsibility for Flat Carbon Steel Europe and Auto, Flat Carbon Steel Brazil, Coordination Brazil, Coordination Heavy Plate, R&D, NSC Alliance.

The merger of Aceralia, Arbed and Usinor leading to the creation of Arcelor in 2002 led to Michel Wurth's appointment as Senior Executive Vice President and CFO of Arcelor, with responsibility over Finance and Management by Objectives.

Michel Wurth joined Arbed in 1979 and held a variety of functions including Secretary of the Board of Directors, head of the Arbed subsidiary Novar and Corporate Secretary, before joining the Arbed Group Management Board and becoming its Chief Financial Officer in 1996. He was named Executive Vice President in 1998.

Michel Wurth holds a law degree from the University of Grenoble, a degree in Political Science from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Grenoble and a Master of Economics degree from the London School of Economics.