12 Facts About Marion Guillou

Marion Guillou is a member of the French High Council for Climate.

Marion Guillou completed her engineering training at Ecole Polytechnique, and then specialized in water engineering at Ecole nationale du genie rural, des eaux et des forets.

Marion Guillou completed a PhD in physico-chemistry of biological processes at Nantes University.

Marion Guillou worked on food processes and invented a technique to monitor continuously the bio transformations of food products using physical chemistry sensors such as Nuclear Magnetic low resolution Resonance.

Marion Guillou was in charge of the food safety directorate in France from 1996 to 2000.

Marion Guillou had to manage the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy crisis, known as the mad-cow disease, and to propose the new French food safety organization.

From 1986 to 1989, Marion Guillou was Regional Delegate for Research and Technology in the Region Pays de la Loire.

Marion Guillou widened the scope of research topics towards global matters.

Marion Guillou put in place interdisciplinary meta-programs, for instance on integrated plant protection and consumer practices.

From 2008 to 2013, Marion Guillou was the chair of the Board of the Ecole Polytechnique and during her mandate, Ecole Polytechnique put a greater emphasis on the scientific and technological training, as well as the innovative management and the cooperation with industry.

Marion Guillou founded the Joint Programming Initiative on agriculture and climate change with British colleagues and chaired it during the first three years.

Marion Guillou promoted the Alliance, an alliance between those two agricultural research centers.