Pierre-Franck Chevet is appointed ASN Chairman & Margot Tirmarche is appointed ASN Commissioner

Pierre-Franck Chevet is appointed Chairman of ASN by decree of the President of the Republic dated 9 November 2012, for a period of 6 years. He succeeds André-Claude Lacoste who was appointed Chairman of ASN in 2006 and whose mandate expires on 12 November 2012.

Margot Tirmarche is appointed ASN Commissioner by decree of the President of the Republic dated 9 November 2012, as the member designated by the President of the National Assembly, for a period of 6 years. She succeeds Marie-Pierre Comets, appointed ASN Commissioner in 2006 and whose mandate expires on 12 November 2012.

Pierre-Franck Chevet began his career in ASN in September 1986, and he occupied several positions of responsibility in succession. After being deputy head of the Nuclear Construction Oversight Office, he became deputy director in charge of nuclear power generating reactors (PWR and Superphenix), and then assistant to André-Claude Lacoste.

In September 1995, after nine years in ASN, he was appointed head of the regional directorate for industry, research and the environment of the Alsace region. In this capacity he acted as ASN’s regional representative, in particular with respect to regulatory oversight of the Fessenheim and Cattenom nuclear power plants.

In September 1999, he joined the Nord Pas-de-Calais region as regional director for industry, research and the environment and was appointed head of the Ecole des Mines in Douai. In this capacity he acted as ASN’s regional representative, in particular with respect to regulatory oversight of the Gravelines nuclear power plant.

From February 2005 to February 2007, he was special adviser to the office of the Prime Minister, with responsibility for energy, industry, research and the environment. He in particular took part in drafting the June 2006 Acts on transparency and nuclear security and on the management of nuclear materials and waste.

In February 2007, he was appointed Director General at the General Directorate for Energy and Raw Materials. Since July 2008, he has been Director General at the General Directorate for Energy and Climate.

Mr Chevet is a graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique (X, Class of 1981) and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE 1986). He is a general engineering graduate from the Ecole des Mines.

Margot Tirmarche is an epidemiologist whose activity focuses primarily on the study of the risks of cancer as related to exposure to ionising radiation, in particular radon.

In 1976, in the IGR (Institut Gustave Roussy), she took part in an international epidemiological survey in order to gain a clearer picture of the risk factors (tobacco, asbestos) involved in lung cancer.

In 1980, she joined the CEA (IPSN) in particular to look after long-term monitoring of uranium miners, to gain a more detailed understanding of the cancer risk linked to the inhalation of the radon progeny.

Since 1992, when the epidemiology and detrimental health effects laboratory was created at the IPSN, Margot Tirmarche has been in charge of national and international research projects. She became deputy head of the laboratory in 1994 and then head of the laboratory in 1999.

Following the Chernobyl accident and as part of a European collaborative programme, she took part as of 1992 in setting up health monitoring of the “liquidators” and the general public living in Ukraine, Belarus and the contaminated areas of Russia.

Since 2000, Margot Tirmarche has worked in her field of scientific expertise in the IPSN and then IRSN. Internationally, she is a member of the ICRP, UNSCEAR and WHO. At a European level, she has evaluated research projects and conducted scientific and technical coordination of a number of epidemiological research programmes.

Since 2009, she has been in charge of scientific oversight and coordination of radiation protection research programmes at IRSN’s Science Department and then its Strategy, Development and Partnerships Department.

Margot Tirmarche holds a Master’s degree in biology and genetics from the Paris VI Faculty of Sciences and a postgraduate diploma (DERBH) in cancerology and immunology from the Paris-Sud faculty of medicine.

Press contact: Evangelia Petit, head of media department, tel.: 01 40 19 86 61, evangelia.petit@asn.fr