this is called do not drag on the road. Yet

Take the reins of weather-France forty-three years after being assigned by the National Agency for radioactive waste (Andra) to only 34, this is called do not drag on the road. Yet, the new CEO of the venerable House of the Quai Branly, François Jacq, does not give the impression of a man in a hurry. Not develop ambitious career plans, this great two-metre hoopwood most often merely respond to one or other solicitations. Such was the case for his recent visit to Matignon François Fillon cabinet: when so many young technocrats with long teeth themselves at the door of this high place of power, there would be almost gone backwards, "technician and not as a man of firm", nuance there. A technician who, after a year, still was in charge of a sprawling perimeter encompassing industry, research, energy, the environment, transport, land-use planning and housing!

A passion for medieval history

Son born in le Havre and come to Paris for his mole to Louis-le-Grand Master agents, this fort in math is even paid the luxury to take paths of tie at the start of his professional life. After having chosen in preference to normal sup X and be out in the boot, he wanted to satisfy his passion for the medieval history of the research. But the emergence of the nation-State in the 14th century is not top of the list of priorities of the body of Mines, this desire has not provoked an enthusiasm beyond among managers of the said body. A compromise had to be found, under the terms of which the Duby drive is specialized in the history of science of the 20th century. A direction which will lead to get a master of sociology at the EHESS before support in 1996 in the Doctoral School of the school of mines a thesis devoted to the Refoundation of the scientific and technical system French in the aftermath of the second world war. François Jacq will also continue to provide a course on Science and technology in the society of the 16th and 17th centuries at the school of mines and the ESSEC business school until 2002. After his thesis, however, or find a fall in the academic world I had no good degrees", smiles , the X-Mines had to abandon his research career and make her"great return to orthodoxy. " He began the Department research, where he is asked to mount a small Department of a dozen people covering the sectors of energy, transport, environment and natural resources, prior to be bombed in 2000 Director General of Andra and 400 officers. On the part of the then President, Yves Le Bars, who hired this young man, the bet is risky. It will be paid.

"A little more stressed than the average" managers of public institutions, Beauvoir-doctor-sociologist-historian of the amateur medievalist science learns the b.a.-ba of the management on the heap and is doing with honours: in 2005, year of his departure for the Directorate General of energy and raw materials (DGEMP), Andra, passed to the screen of an international assessment, gets "a very encouraging said. Weather-France now gives the opportunity to exercise his talents on a larger population of 3,700 employees. A new challenge that he approached plunging into the 600 pages of the "fundamentals of meteorology".