Alain Bucaille

Mr Bucaille is presently advisor to Anne Lauvergeon, Chairman of the AREVA group. His work over the last three years has focused on reengineering the industry's approach to public acceptance of nuclear energy.

Mr. Bucaille is also Professor of Human Sciences, teaching philosophy and poetry, with a specialty in the links we build between the right and left parts of our brain - the rational behind the emotional.

Early in his career, Mr. Bucaille occupied various functions in New Caledonia, Japan and Australia. He returned to France in the 1980’s to head up economic studies for the impending tax reforms. In the early 1990s, he joined the Lafarge group as Director of a subsidiary, then as Managing Director for Research and Innovation. From 1996 to 2000 Mr Bucaille was Executive Director of the Hermes group, the well-known luxury goods company.

Mr. Bucaille is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and the Corps des Mines in France.


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