Maurice Allègre
Mr Maurice Allègre was Chairman of ANDRA (Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs), the French national radioactive waste management agency, from 1993 to 1998. He retired in February 1998 and since then has been an international consultant on energy issues. He is an Ingénieur Général des Mines, a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique (1951), of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, and of the Ecole Supérieure du Pétrole. He is also a Bachelor of Law. He started his career in 1957 at the Fuel Division of the Ministry of Industry. From 1962–64, he was Director of Mines for an Algerian-French organisation for developing oil and mineral resources. From 1965–67 he was a technical adviser to two French Finance Ministers, Valery Giscard d’Estang and Michel Debre. From 1968 to 1974, he was in charge of French government policy for the development of the computer industry and the use of computers in society, holding the positions of Chairman of the French Computer and Automation Research Institute (IRIA) and Chairman of the Permanent Electronic Commission of the Development Plan. In 1976 he was nominated as Deputy General Manager of the Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP). From 1982–84 he was Director of Scientific and Technical Development and Innovation in the Ministry of Research and Technology, and was also Chairman of the National Agency for Research and Development (ANVAR). In 1984, Mr Allègre was appointed General Manager of the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, becoming its Chairman from 1988–92.
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