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Pascal Barthélemy appointed IFP’s Executive Vice-President

05 May 2008

Pascal Barthélemy has been appointed IFP’s Executive Vice-President. He is to take over from Édouard Freund at the end of the year, when the latter retires.

Pascal Barthélemy, 50, holds a doctorate in physics and chemistry. He joined Rhodia in 1985, then named Rhône-Poulenc, where he was in charge of research and development work, as R&D Director for Europe in Rhodia subsidiaries in particular. Pascal Barthélemy has been Director of External Relations and Industrial & Sustainable Development for R&D since 2004.

He has founded and been at the helm of Axelera, the Lyons and Rhône-Alpes Chemistry-Environment competitiveness cluster.

Against a backdrop of far-reaching changes currently facing the energy sector (increase in energy demand, fight against climate change, record oil prices), Pascal Barthélemy will play his part, within the General Management team (alongside Olivier Appert, Chairman and CEO, and Georges Picard, Executive Vice-President), in managing and supporting IFP’s strategic changes, with a focus on stepping up research work in the field of new energy technologies.

IFP is a world-class public-sector research and training center, aimed at developing the technologies and materials of the future in fields of energy, transport and the environment. It provides public players and industry with innovative solutions for a smooth transition to the energies and materials of tomorrow – more efficient, more economical, cleaner and sustainable.