Jean-Lou Chameau (born 1953) is a civil engineer and the current president of the California Institute of Technology. Previously he served as a provost of the Georgia Institute of Technology.[1]
Chameau received his secondary, undergraduate, and graduate education in France where he attended the Arts et Métiers PARISTECH (ex ENSAM). He then obtained his Ph.D in civil engineering from Stanford University. In 1980 he joined Purdue University, where he became full professor in civil engineering and head of the geotechnical engineering program. In 1991, he was nominated director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Chameau became president of Caltech on 1 September 2006, succeeding David Baltimore who served nearly nine years in the post.
Chameau is married to Carol Carmichael, former director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech.
In 2010, he received the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur award. [2]
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