Senator and President of the Sophia Antipolis Foundation. He was the Director of the Ecole des Mines (1963-1984). He worked, notably as Director, at the Geological, Geophysical, and Mining Research Office (1953-1963). He created the Sophia Antipolis Foundation in 1984. He was Senator (1985-2008) and was then named honorary Senator. Nicolas Sarkozy made him responsible for a mission in order to create a specific network of innovation development in Euro-Mediterranean. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines.
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