Nine years later the operation was successful

In the library glass of his Office, a host of books and, in the centre, a portrait of a woman, a very formal installation of his sister, in robes, the day where this scientist became commandeur des palmes académiques. Yolande Barbaux, who co-created in 1992 the Faculty of science of Lens, is the guardianship of his brother, Yann. Without his example, he would not have chosen Central, or even the profession of engineer. In preparation, in pure mathematics theorist, has attracted rather taunting of his professors, who highlighted his lack of practicality. The anecdote is tasty because Yann Barbaux leads three years centres of technological research of EADS.

Far and away, its teams deal with the laboratory of catalysis, heterogeneous and homogeneous of the University of Lille I, where his sister began. A pure coincidence that he however notes with pride as if fifty-one years, he was now as equals of the admired, twelve-year-old sister his elder. And his recent appointment to the Presidency of the ENS Cachan should even strengthen this assurance. The normal school and the industrial, long-time partners, notably through the "numerical methods for the calculation of mechanical structures" chair funded by EADS, chose him for his empathy for the students, that he sees as a future potential. "Today, the Bank seeks a good share of the best elements." My goal is to discover a company that brings a lot to those who may wish to get involved.

Wooden step

Its route the Group remains the best advertising that is. Entered in Aerospatiale in 1982 as a quality engineer, later Director propelled fourteen coordination and funding of research, it will be one of the actors of the construction and sustainability of EADS. However, the years of the Aerospatiale-Matra-Dasa-Casa merger will be the most complex of its existence. Appointed in 2000 Vice-President integration, responsible for the R & T and the defence, he must federate a myriad of companies, find a common language between French and German teams, and streamline the organization. "I am sometimes asked me what was my place, but my maxim has always been: whether losing a little to win a little", says pragmatic man and not language, anxious to show that the party was sometimes difficult to franco-français conservatism.

Nine years later, the operation was successful. Only flat, the internal investigation was recently conducted by the Gallup Institute to employees, highlighting a glaring lack recognition and mentoring. These testimonials do not surprise. "The teams depend on patterns sometimes installed in hundreds of kilometres, in another country." "The individual follow-up is complex," he explained, decidedly open and convinced of the limits of its own power of management. Himself spent much of his week in Munich, multiplies jumps in Newport and Madrid, and sometimes file in Moscow, where 250 of the best scientists of the Academy of sciences are working for the consortium. An incredible partnership which itself bluffing.

Absorbed for twenty years by laws and constraints of aviation, son and grandson of collaborators Bréguet, Vice-President of EADS facilities is now fascinated by another concentrate of technologies, the sailboat. Stand on the other hand it attracts, the Douaisien does not have sea legs. He prefers the dark reduced where he finds his friends, always the same from Central, to play rock guitar. Sometimes the band will even rent a professional studio. For to vent.