Hervé BERNARD is currently Director, Special Advisor to the Chairman of the CEA (Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission) since 1^st September 2015.

From 2008, he served as deputy-Chairman and deputy-Chief Executive Officer of the CEA. In his duties, Hervé Bernard had the permanent ability of Acting CEO. He headed many strategic internal committees on nuclear safety, security, investments, information systems, education…He is widely involved in European and International partnerships.

Till 2008, he headed the Risk Management Directorate covering for the whole organism the fields of security, nuclear safety, health physics, environment, emergency preparedness, litigation and nuclear inspections.

From 2000 to 2003, he headed the Cadarache centre where he launched in 2001 the European candidature of the site to host the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). The Cadarache centre is the worldwide reference site for research and development on nuclear fuels and reactors. Previously, he headed different laboratories devoted to research and development activities and engineering in the field of nuclear materials, advanced fuels, fast and light water reactors.

Hervé Bernard served as chairman of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) from April 2014 to May 2017. He is member of the European EIT InnoEnergy Supervisory board, of the French ANCRE Alliance (Alliance nationale de coordination de la recherche pour l’énergie), of the Hungarian Academy of Science’s MTA-EK Scientific Advisory board, of the French ANDRA (Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs) Supervisory board and of the HCTISN (Haut comité pour la transparence et l’information sur la sécurité nucléaire). He previously chaired the French Radiation Protection Association (SFRP) and the Nuclear Protection Evaluation Center (CEPN).  

Born in 1953, Hervé Bernard has been graduated as engineer from the Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute and took his PhD in solid state electrochemistry (1980).

January 2018