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Minister of National Education under three right-wing governments from 1993 to 1997, he was also deputy for Pyrénées-Atlantiques between 1986 and 2012, president of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques general council from 1992 to 2001, European deputy from 1999 to 2002 and mayor de Pau since 2014. In 2020, he was re-elected president of the Pau Béarn Pyrénées agglomeration community and also appointed high commissioner for planning.

Born in 1969, she is married and is the mother of two boys aged of 19 and 18 years. After higher education music studies (oboe) at the National Conservatory of Region in Bordeaux and then in Paris, she took up finance & accounting studies again to pass a scientific master’s of finance and accounting techniques.
After graduating from the IAE of Pau-Bayonne, she joined the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of the Landes department. For 20 years she was in charge successively of accompanying the development of companies and of leading sectorial economic observatories, more particularly in tourism. In parallel, she has started a political career in 2008. She was an elected representative of Soustons, located in the Landes department (coastal city of 8500 inhabitants), and practiced by turns the functions of Deputy for culture, then for social affairs before being elected mayor in 2017 and in 2020.

She is currently the 1st vice president of Communauté de Communes Maremne Adour South Coast in charge of digital, territorial strategy and transports. Elected in June 2021 as a regional advisor in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, she has been given by Alain Rousset the international delegation with as major missions: the construction and the deployment of a development policy, at the international scale, of companies and sectors creating added value and employments. The development of partnerships enabling the multiplying of regional ecosystems’ connections with the most performant ecosystems in the world, in order to better accelerate the internationalization of companies and sectors.

A 40-year experience in the territorial economic development and in assisting companies. After having led the Pau-Bearn Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Bernos has taken the responsibility of CEO at the Lacq Basin within Chemparc, tool of industrial development by the Community of Communes of Lacq-Orthez. Missions: promotion of the industrial basin on the national and international scale, prospection of new projects, assisting project-holders until the setting up and managing of the R&D platform, technological transfer and industrial application CHEMSTRAT’UP (10 000m² of labs and pilots – 10 organizations hosted – 90 researchers and technicians). The fields of development: energy transition (renewable energies, valorization of waste, bio-based green chemistry, …) – composite materials and energy storage – geosciences and oil-related products - …

CEO at Arverne Group and President at Lithium de France

As the founder in 2018 and President of Arverne Groupe, Pierre Brossollet is convinced of the essential role of the subsurface in the new energy paradigm which is accelerating. He federates talents from geosciences but also big operations to invent new and original models of production of renewable energies; which stick to the values of Arverne, which became the “Company with a mission”: territory, boldness, sharing. Arverne is at the origin of “Lithium de France”, a company created in 2019 and based in Strasbourg, aiming for the production of low carbon lithium, extracted from geothermal waters valorized in short cycles.

After graduating with a PhD in geology, mineralogy and geochemistry, Monique has first worked in fundamental and applied research and joined the mining industry in 1990. She worked at Société le Nickel in exploration, ore beneficiation and mining projects. She joined in 1998 Eramet Ingénierie where she developed geostatistical methods applied to diverse raw materials for modeling and evaluating ore bodies. In 2005, she joined Eramet Nickel Division as mineral resource and reserve manager and took part in due diligences that led to the acquisition of Weda Bay Nickel. As such, she has been involved in BFS of hydro- and pyro-metallurgical projects. Member of the European Federation of Geology and Competent Person according to the mining codes for exploration, mineral resource and reserve estimates, she is an active member of knowledge sharing in the field of mining process and risks. She has also been in charge of a European collaborative project developing a prototype for 4.0 responsible exploration and works in the research and development of innovative methods, with the aim of optimizing the deposits and increased performance of processes. Monique joined in that way Eramet Ideas in 2019 as Executive Mining Geology Expert in the Innovation Technology Department.

As an engineer-geologist-geophysicist, Patrick HAMOU defines himself as a“Swiss knife” of the energy sector. He has acquired his technical and operational experience within global leaders’ companies (Exxon, Schlumberger, Engie) as well as within smaller innovative structures as EMGS, a technological start-up he co-developed and launched on the stock market successfully.

More recently, he has joined Teréga, major company ofinfrastructures ofgas transport and storage in France, determined to make gas an accelerator of the energy transition within territories. In his role of Director of Operations, he works on adapting the industrial tool and the operational functioning of the company to new energies and environmental challenges in today’s world.

Juan García-Portero has forty years of experience in geology applied to the exploration of geological resources (both minerals and hydrocarbons). In 1984 he joined the Ente Vasco de la Energía (EVE), taking part in the geological mapping and the geological exploration of the Basque Cantabrian Basin. Over the last 15 years he works as the Exploration Manager in Sociedad de Hidrocarburos de Euskadi (SHESA) and Ente Vasco de la Energía (EVE). He is the person in charge of the design of the exploration programmes and the identification of hydrocarbons plays and prospects and opportunities for Carbon Capture Use and Storage (CCUS) projects.