In the case of JeanPhilippe Olier it would be rather a green wire

It happens that a red yarn emerges more or less clearly under the unavoidable zigzags of any professional career. In the case of Jean-Philippe Olier, it would be rather a green wire. Fifty-four years, Chief Engineer of the Mines, the new President of the national laboratory of metrology and testing (ESA) is a precursor in the industrial environment, an issue on which he began to focus close well before that the Rio Summit popularized the concept of "sustainable development" and that any hair environmentalists climb in the polls. It began in 1987 with the Agency for the quality of air, the first public institution that it had to lead to an age - 30 years - to which many young people graduate indiscretions still stable employment. Leading by the example, the French had held in what his R25 of function, with which he traversed the France rolls to unleaded petrol, which required him to carefully calibrate its routes and "reserve" its focus in advance as a hotel room: the country had then all and for all than 53 unleaded petrol pumps, he recalled, had fun. Then there years Air Liquide, where he was recruited in 1990 for, specifically, develop the market environment, the world leader in industrial gases then embryonic and that it has a 200 million francs in sales. At the same time from 1991 to 1999, he chaired the French Association of engineers and technicians of the environment (Afite), which he is still President of honour.

Temperament of good soldier of the Republic

Another leitmotif in the course of Jean-Philippe Olier is its proximity to long with the research & Development and technology in motion. Without having ever been researcher himself - he needs of the concrete-, the current Director of the development of the Safran Group on several occasions led entire technologists battalions, including when he was promoted Director of R & D activity gas of Air Liquide and, eight years later in 1995, when he found himself at the head of a team of 1,500 white-collar as patron of Snecma solid propulsion operationsbased in Bordeaux. A "gruelling" but "exciting", position which he still spoke with emotion. The boosters of Ariane 5 rocket nozzles also decorate the walls of his Office in saffron, where they are with the photo of her five children of twelve to twenty and one years old and expensive mountains of the High-Maurienne, the secret garden of this Crown lovers who owns a cottage.

This is not yet at the foot of the tracks, but by the sea, that the coincidences of life gave it rise to. In le Havre, specifically, where his father was a small trading in rum. He had the habit, after school, manipulate the drums or stopper bottles, which has not stopped him to do his homework and always hold its rank of first class. It is now grateful to his parents to be bled to the four veins to enter it in Saint-Joseph, "the" lycée private Harbour, and then at the lycée Pierre - Corneille in Rouen where he will be admitted in Mole without even knowing, at the time, what was this mysterious "X" which was so much. Of modest origins that make all the more deserving his social rise and explain, in part, his temperament of good soldier of the Republic.