Position held within the Company
Director appointed by the Shareholders’ Meeting on recommendation from the French State
Date of appointment to the Board
30 September 2016
Last re-elected
16 May 2019
Expiry of current term of office
Shareholders’ Meeting called to approve the financial statements for the fiscal year closing 31 December 2020
Other position(s)
Member of the Nuclear Commitments Monitoring Committee
Shares held
0
Nationality
French
Michèle Rousseau is graduate as a General Engineer from Mines ParisTech Engineering School. She started her career at the Nord-Pas de Calais DRIRE (i.e. Regional Directory for Industry, Research and the Environment) as Head of the Environment Division. She went on to join the Ministry of the Environment where she was responsible for waste, and later the Ministry of Industry where she held the post of Deputy Director of the Nuclear Installation Safety Directorate with responsibility for oversight of EDF’s nuclear fleet. She then moved to the ANVAR (i.e. French research and innovation agency), as Deputy Director General where she conducted policies supporting innovative projects driven by SMEs, and later to the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry as Director with responsibility for energy demand and markets. Here, she was tasked in particular with developing a new legislative and regulatory framework in the wake of the opening up of European electricity and gas markets and expanding energy conservation and renewable energies. Michèle Rousseau subsequently returned to the Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, where she held the positions of Secretary General and, in 2008, Director, Deputy Commissioner General for Sustainable Development, with particular responsibility for implementing the Grenelle Environment initiative. In 2011, she was appointed Director General of the Seine-Normandie Water Agency before returning in 2016 to the General Council for Environment and Sustainable Development where she was Chair of the Haut-de-France Regional Environmental Authority (MRAe). Michèle Rousseau has been the Chair of the Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (i.e. French Geological Survey institution) since March 2017, and director of the IRSTEA (i.e. French research institute on agriculture, food, and the environment) since August 2018.
| Office/Position | Title | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Chair of the Board of Directors | Chair of the Board of Directors Title Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières – BRGM | Chair of the Board of Directors Country France |
| Director | Director Title Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l’environnement (IRSTEA) | Director Country France |
