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The Institute's full-time staff
Within the framework of the orientations defined with the Foresight Committee, the permanent staff identifies themes for reflection as well as the most qualified experts to carry out its program of studies.
The staff's mission is to initiate projects, coordinate on-going work, and to exploit the results obtained. It also is responsible for organizing international conferences on environmental foresight. In addition the Institute will develop a scientific editorial policy.
Georges Valentis
Managing Director
With an engineering degree from Athens Polytechnic school, Greece, and a PhD in environmental studies from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France, Georges Valentis joined Compagnie Générale des Eaux in 1989, where he served as head of the European branch of Anjou-Recherche, the water research branch. In 1992, he took on the mission of creating CREED, the Environment, Energy and Waste Research Center where he served as Managing Director and President. Since 1993 he has been teaching the waste recycling and treatment course at the Ecole des Mines de Douai, France. In September 2001, he took over as Managing Director of the Institut Veolia Environnement .
- Fax : +33 1 53 43 22 86
- E-mail : georges.valentis@institut.veolia.org
Gaëll Mainguy
Director of Scientific Publications
Gaëll Mainguy is a former pupil of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and a Doctor in Molecular biology (Pierre and Marie Curie University). He successively works for the CNRS (Paris), the Center for Biomedical Genetics (Utrecht, The Netherlands) and the INSERM (Paris). In 2004, he is elected President of the World Academy of Young Scientists (WAYS). This international organization founded by UNESCO has the task of developing interactions between young scientists across the world, irrespective of their discipline, and of creating areas for interactions between science and society. Gaëll Mainguy joins the Institute in 2006 and is in charge of developing its scientific editorial policy.
- Fax : +33 1 53 43 22 86
- E-mail : gaell.mainguy@institut.veolia.org
Nadia Caid
Development Director
Nadia Caïd received a Post-Graduate Research Degree in Environmental Economics and Natural Resources from the Sorbonne University (Paris I). From 1999 to 2007, she was Administrator and Economist at the OECD, managing the OECD Working Group on Transport. She has designed, researched, carried out and implemented the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 programmes of work and budget with the objectives to analysing the relations between economic growth, transport demand and their environmental impacts and to identifying cost-effective strategies for decoupling environmental impacts of transport from economic growth. Nadia Caïd has published several OECD reports, as author and co-author. She has organised and co-organised different international conferences including the OECD international conference on the environmentally sustainable transport (EST ) held in Vienna and the OECD international conference on EST in Asian region held in Nagoya. In 2007, she has joined the Institut Veolia Environment as Development Director.
- Fax : +33 1 53 43 22 86
- E-mail : nadia.caid@institut.veolia.org
Ludivine Houssin
Project Manager
Former student of the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers (ESSCA), France, and holding a master's degree of International Trade and Management, Ludivine HOUSSIN began her career at Cogema. Then, as an assistant of a French congressman, she worked mostly on subjects related to the environment, health and energy. She also organized an international conference on sustainable development for the French Pavilion at the 2005 Aichi World Expo before she joined the Institut Veolia Environnement in 2006.
- Fax : +33 1 53 43 22 86
- E-mail : ludivine.houssin@institut.veolia.org
Dany Martin
Personal Assistant
After graduating in foreign languages and working within executive search companies, Dany Martin joined the Compagnie Générale des Eaux (Veolia Water) in 1994. She joined the Institut Veolia Environnement in 2006.
- Fax : +33 1 53 43 22 86
- E-mail : dany.martin@institut.veolia.org
Monique Fourdrignier
Personal Assistant
After working for 10 years as secretary to the congressman for Val-de-Marne, France, Monique Fourdrignier joined Compagnie Générale des Eaux in 1992, where she worked for the Communication and Public Relations department. She joined the Institut Veolia Environnement in 2002 as Personal Assistant.
- Fax : +33 1 53 43 22 86
- E-mail : monique.fourdrignier@institut.veolia.org
