Board of Directors and Programme Directors
Board of Directors
Last update : April 2023
Christophe Poinssot
Chairman and CEO by interim
Deputy CEO, Scientific Director
Jean-Marc Trouillard
Secretary - general
Philippe Freyssinet
Director, research, scientific programming and communication
Marie Belossat
Director, human resources
Catherine Bonin
Director, innovation, business and international activities
Christophe Didier
Director, georesources
Philippe Gombert
Director, water, environment, processes and analytics
Karim Ben Slimane
Director, risks and prevention
Arnaud Garnier
Director, digital for geosciences
Jean-Marc Mompelat
Director, regional network
Natacha Girold
Acting financial director
Programme Directors
Last update : January 2022
Knowledge of geological systems
Pierre Nehlig
Imaging and modelling of the subsurface
Philippe Calcagno
Natural risks and resilience of communities
Gilles Grandjean
Management of mining and industrial impacts on land and the subsurface
Dominique Guyonnet
Digital data, services and infrastructure
Matthew Harrison
Groundwater and global change
Dominique Darmendrail
Mineral resources and the circular economy
Patrick d’Hugues
Subsurface potential for energy transition
Sylvie Gentier
Board of Governors and Committees
Board of Governors
Last update : April 2023
Chair of the Board of Governors
To be appointed
Government Commissioner
Émilie Bernardin-Skalen
Representing the ministers for:
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Research
Didier Marquer, Policy Officer for Earth Sciences, Georesources and Geotechnologies, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Deputy: Lise Fechner, Deputy Head of the Research Strategy Service (SSRI) at the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DGRI)
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the Environment
Philippe Merle, Head of Department, Technological Risks Department
Deputy: Jean-Luc Perrin, Deputy director for Chronic Risks and Steering
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Mining
Guglielmina Toro, Assistant Deputy Director for Protection and Management of Water and Mineral Resources, Water and Biodiversity Directorate
Deputy: Jean-François Gaillaud, Head of Office, Directorate-General for Planning, Housing and Nature, Water and Biodiversity Directorate
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Foreign affairs
Sébastien Bidaud, Deputy Director for Strategic Sectors, Economic Diplomacy Directorate
Deputy: Vanessa Salas-Pouget, Head, Energy Division, Strategic Sectors Branch, Economic Diplomacy Directorate
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Cooperation
Dominique Waag, Deputy Director for Higher Education and Research, Directorate-General for Globalisation, Culture, Education and Development
Deputy: Baptiste Bondu, Head, Division for Operators and Sector Strategies
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the Economy
Michel Schmitt, Engineer-General for Mines, Council-General for the Economy
Deputy: Isabelle Wallard, Engineer-General for Mines, Council-General for the Economy
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Budget
Alicia Saoudi, Head of the Department for Energy, State Participation, Industry and Innovation, Budget Directorate
Deputy: Alexie Lalanne-Pelerin, Deputy Head, Department for Energy, State Participation, Industry and Innovation, Budget Directorate
Members selected for their particular expertise:
Anne Besnier, Vice-President, Delegate for Higher Education and Research, Centre-Val de Loire Regional Council
Marc Chaussidon, Director, Paris Institute of Planetary Physics
Pierre-Alain Gautier, Director of Corporate Affairs & Partnerships, ERAMET Group
Sylvie Joussaume, Research Director, CNRS, Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Science, UMR 1572
BRGM staff representatives:
Marie-Christine Dictor (CFDT), Nicolas Frissant (CFDT), Daniel Raucoules (CFDT), Denis Thiéblemont (CGT), Émilie Vanhoudheusden (CFE/CGC), Pierre Vassal (CFE/CGC)
Economic and financial auditing:
Bruno Rossi, Jean-Pascal Codine
Scientific committee
Last update : January 2022
Chair
Vincent Lagneau
Chair of the Scientific Committee and Director of the Mines ParisTech Geosciences Centre
Members
Stéphane Bourg
Policy Officer for European and International Cooperation at the Institut des Sciences et Technologies pour une Economie Circulaire des Energies Bas-Carbone (ISEC), CEA
Bertrand Braunschweig
Director of Coordination for the National Research Programme on Artificial Intelligence, (INRIA, Saclay)
Philippe Charvis
Director for Science, IRD
Agnès Ducharme
CNRS Research Director, METIS, Panthéon Sorbonne University
Lara Duro
Managing Director of the Amphos 21 Group
Lluís Fontboté
Professor of Mining and Geology, University of Geneva
Emilia Huret
Head of DRD/3C - Deputy Director of R&D (ANDRA)
Laurent Jolivet
Professor, Sorbonne University, UMPC – University of Paris 6
Zoubeida Kebaïli Bargaoui
Hydraulic Engineer, Tunis National School of Engineering, University of Tunis El Manar
Patrick Landais
High Commissioner for Atomic Energy and Member of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Louis Londe
Technical Director of Géostock, Chair of the Board of Directors of Géodénergies
Laurent Montador
Deputy CEO, CCR Group
Valérie November
CNRS Research Director, Member of the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Société (LATTS, École des Ponts)
Judith Sausse
Director of the École nationale supérieure de géologie (ENSG)
Hervé Suty
Director of CapBurdi and TERGYS
Tirza Van Daalen
Director of the Geological Survey of the Netherlands (TNO)
Olivier Vidal
Research Director, CNRS - ISTERRE
International committee
Last update : January 2022
Chair
Jean Lamy, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar / Former Ambassador
Members
Özlem Adiyaman Lopes, UNESCO
Theresa Ponce de Leão, Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Energy and Geology Laboratory (LNEG), the Portuguese geological survey
Denis Favier, Safety Director - Total Group
Rémi Pelon, Senior Mining Specialist - World Bank
Céline Adrien, Director of the EuroGeoSurveys (EGS) Secretariat
Louis Maréchal, Head of the Minerals and Mining Sector - OECD
Vanessa Salas-Pouget, Head of the Energy Department - Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
Rokhaya Samba Diene, Director of Exploration and Mining Promotion at the Ministry of Mines and Geology of Senegal and Chairperson of the African Geological Survey Organisation (OSGA)
Professor Zahar, Professor of Higher Education at the Polytechnic School of Tunisia. EPT and Director of the VDEC (Sustainable Cities and Built Environment) Laboratory
Jean Launay, Chair of the French Partnership for Water (PFE)
or Marie-Laure Vercambre, Executive Director of the PFE
Frédéric Maurel, AFD, Deputy Head of the Water and Sanitation Division
Didier Marquer - Head of mission for georesources and geotechnologies at the Directorate General for Research and Innovation (MESRI)
Hervé Boisguillaume, Deputy Director of Strategy, Partnerships and General Affairs
or Chahoul Gaffar, Head of the Partnerships, Operators and Projects Office, Ministry of Ecological Transition (MTE)
National public services strategy committee
Last update : January 2022
Ministry of the economy, finance and recovery
By delegation, the Director-General of Development, Housing and Nature
Representing the ministry for ecological transition
The Director for Water and Biodiversity
The Director-General for Risk Prevention
The Director-General for Infrastructure, Transport and the Sea
The Director-General for Energy and Climate
The Director for Research and Innovation
Representing the ministry of higher education, research and innovation
The Director-General for Research and Innovation
Representing the ministry of the interior
The Director-General for Civil Security and Crisis Management
Representing the ministry for agriculture and food
The Deputy Director for Environmental Performance and Regional Development
Representing the ministry for solidarity and health
The Director-General for Health
Representing the ministry for overseas France
The Director-General for Overseas France
Representing the ministry of culture
The Director-General for Heritage
The chair of the BRGM scientific committee
The chair of the BRGM
Strategic innovation committee
Last update : January 2022
Jean-Yves Berthou (INRIA)
Director of the Inria Saclay research centre (Île-de-France)
Paul-Joël Derian (Avril Group)
Group VP Innovation and Sustainable Development - GM (Paris, France)
Annie Geay (Bpifrance)
Director of Studies (Maisons-Alfort, France)
Gérard Jacquin (GJ Consulting SAS)
President (Vitry-sur-Seine, France)
Laurent Jammes (CNRS)
Director of Industrial Partnerships CNRS-INSU (Paris, France)
Frédéric Jory (SAGEOS)
Managing Director (Orléans, France)
Philippe Portier
Open Collaborative Innovation Expert (Écully, France)
Thierry Salmona (TGS conseil)
President (Paris, France)
Hervé Suty (Capburdi)
Chairman (Bordeaux, France)
Audit committee
Last update : January 2022
Chair
Marie-Madeleine Miallot-Muller
Members
Jean-Pascal Codine
Alicia Saoudi
Jean-Luc Perrin
Marie-Christine Dictor
Denis Thieblemont
Émilie Vanoudheusden
Government commissioner
Émilie Bernardin-Skalen