Knowledge Based Bio-Economy towards 2020

Mrs. GUILLOU MARION 

CEO - INRA, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

Biography

Marion Guillou has been President (CEO) of INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) since 2004 after having been Director-General of the same organisation from 2000 onwards.

Upon accepting her current second term as President, she has dedicated herself to develop cooperation programmes between European and international research institutes for agriculture, food security and the environment.

She is also the President of Agreenium, the French consortium for research and education in agriculture, food and nutrition, animal health and the environment, created in May 2009. Marion Guillou is a member of the boards of the International Research Centre for Tropical agriculture (CIRAD), the European Food Safety Authority and chairs the Board of Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). Previously, as General Director for Food (1996-2000), she participated actively in European work as to food regulation and in the Codex Alimentarius working sessions.

Marion Guillou is a member of the French Academy of Agriculture and the National Academy of Technology; she qualified as a doctor in physic-chemistry, is an engineer of water and forestry and has a diploma from the merited Ecole Polytechnique (X73).

Programme

Speaker, Part I Addressing the global Societal CHALLENGES and socio-economic DRIVERS

Title: Agriculture and its contribution to green growth