Jacques Biot (born 6 December 1952) is a French engineer, businessman,

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for pharmaceutical companies and academic administrator. He served as the president of the

École Polytechnique (, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...

between 2013 and 2018.

Early life

Jacques Biot was born on December 6, 1952, in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, France. Biot was educated at the Lycée Ampère and the

Lycée du Parc The Lycée du Parc is a public secondary school located in the sixth ''arrondissement'' of Lyon, France. Its name comes from the Parc de la Tête d'Or, one of Europe's largest urban parks, which is situated nearby. It provides a ''lycée''-level ...

in Lyon. He graduated from the

in 1974 and the

École des Mines École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

in 1977.

Career

Biot served in the

Corps des mines The () is the foremost technical Grand Corps of the French State (). It is composed of the state industrial engineers. The Corps is attached to the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. Its purpose is to entice French students in mathematic ...

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from 1977 to 1980. He worked as an urban planner and statistician in the

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from 1980 to 1983. He subsequently served as an advisor to Labour ministers

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and

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. When Fabius became prime minister in 1984, Biot remained his advisor, up until 1985. Biot worked for

Roussel Uclaf Roussel Uclaf S.A. was a French pharmaceutical company and one of several predecessor companies of today's Sanofi. It was the second largest French pharmaceutical company before it was acquired by Hoechst AG of Frankfurt, Germany in 1997, with p ...

, a pharmaceutical company. He subsequently worked for Pasteur-Vaccins (now

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). He founded JNB-Développement S.A., a consultancy firm for the healthcare industry, in 1992. He also served as the vice president and director of Guerbet. Biot has served as the president of his alma mater, the École Polytechnique, since July 1, 2013. He succeeded

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. Biot was tasked with modernising the school, based on Bernard Attali's recommendations. As a result, he established a centre for start-ups and oversaw the expansion of

Paris-Saclay Paris-Saclay is a research-intensive and business cluster currently under construction in the south of Paris, France. It encompasses research facilities, two French major universities with higher education institutions (''grandes écoles'') and ...

. Biot became an Officer of the

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in 2014. In October 2018, he was appointed director of Huawei France.

Personal life

Biot is married, and he has three daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Biot, Jacques 1952 births Living people Engineers from Lyon École Polytechnique alumni Corps des mines 20th-century French engineers 20th-century French businesspeople 21st-century French businesspeople French company founders French corporate directors Businesspeople in the pharmaceutical industry Academic staff of École Polytechnique Officers of the Legion of Honour French academic administrators Businesspeople from Lyon Mines Paris - PSL alumni