Ronan Stephan will join Alstom as Group Chief Innovation Officer

Ronan Stephan will join Alstom as Group Chief Innovation Officer on 22 March 2012. Ronan Stephan will report to the Corporate Senior Vice President Strategy of Alstom. 

Ronan Stephan (52) is a graduate engineer from ENSI engineering school and holds a PhD in physics from University of Caen (France). He began his career in 1984 with Thomson-CSF group up to 1997, then he was executive director of Brests Science Park from 1997 to 2002. In 2003 he was appointed Director for industrial affairs and technology transfer with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the executive board, and executive director of France Innovation Scientifique et Transfert, a subsidiary of CNRS and OSEO. From 2005 to 2009, he was President and CEO of Compiègne University of Technology, and joined the French Ministry for higher education and research as General Director for research and innovation in 2009. 

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