Patrick PÉLATA

A graduate of the École polytechnique and École nationale des ponts et chaussées, and holder of a doctorate in socio-economics from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, he has extensive experience in the automotive industry, with Renault and Nissan, where he was a senior executive, as well as with Salesforce in San Francisco, then as a consultant on the transformation of mobility. He spearheaded Renault's electric vehicle program, including the Zoé, announced in 2009. A member of the boards of Safran, Orano and Vulog, a car-sharing start-up, he is also Chairman of the National Academy of Technologies of France.