Finding a secure, safe and reliable source of energy to power
world economic growth will be one of the great challenges of
this century. The Harvard University Center for the Environment
invites the Harvard community to take up the challenge by
participating in this ongoing series of discussions.
*THE FUTURE of ENERGY*
ANNE LAUVERGEON
CEO, Areva the worlds largest nuclear power company
"Another Inconvenient Truth?"
March 12, 2008
5:30 PM
Harvard University
Science Center Lecture Hall C
One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
A graduate of the prestigious French engineering schools, the
Ecole des Mines and the Ecole Normal Supérieure, Anne Lauvergeon
has been Chief Executive Officer of Areva group, the worlds
leader in nuclear power and the only company to cover all
industrial activities in this field, since July 2001.
With a degree in physics, Lauvergeon began her career in 1983
in the iron and steel industry before joining the CEA (Commissariat
à l'Energie Atomique, the public technological research organization
in France), where she studied the problems of chemical safety in
Europe. From 1985 to 1988, she supervised the underground utilities
activities in and around Paris and was appointed, in 1988, Deputy
Director of the General Mining Council. In 1990, she was named
Advisor for Economic International Affairs at the French Presidency
and Deputy Chief of its Staff in 1991. In March 1997, she joined
Alcatel Telecom as Senior Executive Vice President and was appointed
Member of the Executive Committee in July 1998. She was in charge of
international organization and the Group's interests overseas in
energy and nuclear fields.
In 2006, Lauvergeon was ranked by the magazine Forbes as the
eighth-most powerful woman in the world, second-most in Europe
and most powerful in France. For more information about Areva,
visit:
areva.com/servlet/home-en.html
The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the
Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous
support from Bank of America. This lecture is free and open
to the public.
See:
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=92536591
---
Contact:
Lisa Matthews
Events Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu
p. 617-495-8883
f. 617-496-0425
==================================================
Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list:
http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=arDl03yHPUc7GdW4SkES0
Our mailing address is:
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford St.
3rd floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Our telephone:
(617) 495-0368
Forward this email to a friend:
http://forward-to-friend.com/tell_friend.phtml?cid=arDl03yHPU&f=1