INRIA - Christine d'Argouges named Deputy Director

Hervé Mathieu, the current Deputy managing Director of INRIA, is joining the General Management at CNRS. Christine d'Argouges will replace him as Deputy managing Director as of January 2005.

Hervé Mathieu, who has been Deputy managing Director for 8 years, will leave INRIA on December 31, 2004 to become in charge of mission near the General manager of CNRS, Bernard Larrouturou. He contributed significantly to the reinforcement of the organization of the Institute and created an atmosphere of dialog between all parties. He also established constructive working relations with our supervision authorities and played a central role in the period of July 2003 to spring 2004, when INRIA was without a CEO.

Christine d'Argouges will succeed Hervé Mathieu in January 2005. She leaves her post as General Secretary of the Institute for Research for Development (IRD), a position where she was head of administration and finance. She oversaw the implementation of computer management programs. Ms. d'Argouges managed the IRD headquarters and its relations with other IRD research centers. She was also in charge of interacting with the supervision authorities of the organization.

Hervé Mathieu, Deputy managing Director, is joining the CNRS. Christine d'Argouges will replace him.