André Maïsseu

André Maïsseu graduated in 1966 from the Institut des Sciences de la Matière et du Rayonnement (Institute of Matter and Radiation Sciences) in Caen, and in 1967 from the Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires (National Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technology) in Saclay. He was awarded a Docteur d'Etat ès Sciences Physiques in 1971 from the University of Caen. André Maïsseu also graduated in management and economics in 1969 from the Business School of the University of Caen. He became a Docteur ès Sciences Economiques of the University of Caen in 1976. He began his professional career with Creusot Loire steelworks in 1971, at Imphy as Manager of the product line for magnetic steels. In 1974 he joined Renault, where he stayed for ten years, first as Management Auditor, and then as Manager of the Forecasting and New Activities Department. He then joined the Battelle Institute in the USA, where he spent two years as Manager of the Electronics and Manufacturing Industries Department. In 1986 he joined Cogema as special assistant to the Fuels and Reprocessing Branch, first at La Hague reprocessing plant. Since 1992 he has been at the company's headquarters. André Maïsseu was nominated as a Professeur des Universités in 1988. He teaches economics and management of technology, innovation and technical progress at the University of Paris 1 'Pantheon - La Sorbonne', and at the University of Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines. He is visiting professor of the Universities of Wisconsin (since 1992), Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio (since 1993), and Southwestern Louisiana (since 1994). He is the founding President of the World Council of Nuclear Workers, an association of trade unions and professional associations involved in nuclear technologies. It now covers some 1.2 million employees from 26 countries. He has published two books: 'L'Antideclin, ou les mutations technologiques maitrisées' in 1988; and 'Management des ressources technologiques' in 1991.

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