Some professional experiences forge you more character than others

Some professional experiences forge you more character than others. The President of universcience, Claudie Haigneré, is well placed to know, she spent 16 days on the Mir station and ten others in the International Space Station before wiping a beautiful storm in 2004 as Minister of research of the Raffarin Government. Without ever going into space, or even in politics, his right arm at the head of the new public institution born of the approximation of the palate of the discovery and the city of science and industry, Damien Cazé, has known these moments of extreme tension or... of great loneliness. In 2005, fresh out of the cabinet of Jean-Pierre Raffarin taking agricultural records, the young technocrat was bombed Director of marine fisheries and aquaculture in the context of deep crisis in the sector. A position that difficult when you have so little experience - he was only thirty-eight years old at the time-, many degrees to forgive a "Parisien head"... that it is not. "The image the more talking is the Taskmaster who penetrates only in the lions cage", it loose. In the voice and eyes of this man, little inclined to long confidences, exercises, over-valuing and starting pots to however guess a hint of nostalgia. It is that he them has loved, these fishermen to "animal instinct" which you bizutent in their own way and "feel any suite If you respect or if you fear".

Defence of kilometres

Despite une series of gales to shake the walls, the closure of the fishery for anchovy in the summer 2005, the decision worked condemning the France to une heavy penalty, bluefin tuna-crisis, the former technical eventually acceptance of the profession, including it guard moved memories. Its baptism of fire will be successful in high place as Dominique Bussereau, from the Ministry of Agriculture to the Secretariat of State in charge of transportation in 2007, assigned that same year the Directorate of Maritime Affairs. A large shop of 3.300 employees remained a little on the margins of the RGPP, and that it apply to modernize in carrying out various projects, such as the reform of education or the creation of the coastguard service. With always, this son of a Director of agricultural cooperative and grandson of farmer, concern of not letting squeezing by the Parisian microcosm, but regularly from his Office, travelling across the network, visit the Cross (operational surveillance and rescue regional Centres), share the life of crews at sea.

Twenty years before its passage to the Directorate of fisheries, the other significant experience in the life of the Deputy Executive Director of universcience was his mole to Ginette, first dive in the Paris region after a childhood in the Norman bocage and the boarding school among the fathers of Saint-François-de-Sales at Evreux. Two years of intensive preparation which marked the beginning of a "cursus honorum" marathon-like - Ecole des ponts et chaussées, Sciences po, ESSEC business school, ENA, Court of Auditors - foreshadowing the endurance of this large defence of kilometres before the Lord, capabilities survey every morning before 6 hours to have the time to make a jog or ride a bike. And enjoy a little of his four children.