Claude Mandil

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Claude Mandil is the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. He has born in 1942 in Lyon, France. He is graduated from the France’s École Polytechnique and École des Mines. From 1967 until 1981, he occupied different positions at the French civil service related to the engineering and territorial planning . In 1981-1982, he served as a technical advisor in the French Prime Minister’s cabinet, responsible for industry, energy and research. In 1982 he was named Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Industrial Development. In 1988 he became the Director General of the Bureau of Mines and Geology.

From 1990 to 1998 Claude Mandil served as Director General for Energy and Raw Materials at the Ministry of Industry, Post and Telecommunications. From 1997 to 1998 he served as Chairman of the IEA’s Governing Board. From 1991 to 1998, he also represented France at the Nuclear Safety Working Group of the G7 and served as the President of this group in 1996.

From October 1998 to April 2000 Claude Mandil occupied the post of the Managing Director of Gaz de France, and and from April 2000 to February 2003 the post of the Chairman and CEO of the Institut Français du Pétrole. From 1 February 2003 he is the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, in which post he will be succeeded by Nobuo Tanaka from September 2007.

Mr. Mandil is married and has five children.