Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ elected President of the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF)
 

Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ, graduate in aeronautical engineering, former Vice-President and Deputy CEO of Dassault Aviation Corp., has been elected President of the National Academy of Technologies of France for a two-year term of office [Jan.1 2011- Dec.312012]; he replaces Prof. Alain POMPIDOU [term 2009-2010].

The newly elected Vice-President is Gérard ROUCAIROL, Former Scientific Director for the French computer science and engineering group Bull.

Born April 23, 1941, Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ENSAE) in 1964, and, with a pre-contract in hand, as of 1963, joined Dassault Aviation, where he was recruited to their Design Office in 1966.

He was appointed Senior Technical Manager and Director General in 1982 and carried the responsibility of all Dassault’s civilian and military aeronautical and space programmes (the fighter aircraft family MIRAGE 2000 and RAFALE, the FALCON line up to and including the Falcon 7X.
Throughout his career, Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ set up and built on partnerships with various public R&D laboratories in order to develop co-operation leading to industrial applications.

Vice-President and Deputy CEO of Dassault Aviation Corp., over the period 2000-2006, Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ left his seat on the Board in 2008, after 15 years with the Company. Elected Fellow to the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) [March, 2005], he was in a position to invest a lot of time in academic affairs [on Council notably]and was elected Vice-President in 2009. Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ is also a Member of the International Academy of Astronautics and of the French national Academyof Air and Space. He is also a member of the Defence Minister’s Science Council and of the French Parliamentary Office for Assessment of Scientific and Technological Policy Decision (OPECST)

Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ was awarded the French Engineering Grand Prix for 2008 for his career achievements as a whole.