France’s top science policy post filled after three-month vacancy
JUN 19, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028972
Science : Thierry Mandon has been appointed France’s new secretary of state for higher education and research. The post had been vacant since March, when Geneviève Fioraso left for health reasons. Scientists and trade unions alike were pushing to see the position filled, because of anxieties over researchers’ working conditions and a recent budget cut for universities. Mandon, a political scientist, served from 1998 to 2014 as president of Genopole, a biotechnology research group, and since June 2014 has been state secretary for state reform and simplification.
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