Maurice Allègre
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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. He is 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 de Pétrole. He is also a Bachelor of Laws. Maurice Allègre started his career in 1957 at the Fuel Division of the Ministry of Industry in the Hydrocarbon Research and Production Service. From 1962 to 1964, he was Director of Mines in Algeria in an organisation developing the oil and mining resources of the Sahara. After a period as Technical Adviser to M. Valery Giscard d'Estaing and to M. Michel Debré (as Finance Ministers) in 1965-67, Maurice Allègre was, until 1974, in charge of French Government policy for the development of French computer industry and the use of computers in French society. He was also at that time Chairman of the French Computer and Automation Research Institute (IRIA) and Chairman of the Permanent Electronic Commission of the Development Plan. In 1976 Maurice Allègre was appointed Deputy General Manager of Institut Français du Pétrol, with special responsibilities for engineering and services subsidiaries. In 1982 he was appointed Director of Scientific and Technical Development and Innovation in the Ministry of Research and Technology and Chairman of the National Agency for Research and Development (ANVAR). In 1984, he became General Manager of BRGM (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières), the French Geological Survey, which is also a service company and a mining group, and was Chairman of BRGM from 1988 to 1992. |
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