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Loic Bouvard

Member
l' Assemblee National, Republic of France and
former President of the North Atlantic Parliamentary Assembly

LOIC BOUVARD
Married to Elizabeth Ducrot (1969)
Five children (aged 27 to 34)
11 bis rue Jean Nicot, 75007 Paris, France
tel (home): +33 (1) 40 62 97 33
tel (office): +33 (1) 40 63 67 83
e-mail: lbouvard@assemblee-nationale.fr

Professional Achievement
Since 1973, FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, Paris
Elected member of the French National Assembly eight consecutive times in the fourth district of the Morbihan (Brittany)

  • Vice-President of the French National Assembly (1988-1997)
  • Specialist in Defense matters: member of the Defense and Armed Forces Committee (1978-2002)
  • Member of the Legal Affairs Committee (1973-1978)
  • Member since 2002 of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
  • Since 2002 a member of the U.M.P. party
  • Judge to the High Court of Justice (since 2002)
  • Member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since 1978 and President between 1992 and 1994
  • Member of the regional assembly of Brittany (1973-1998): Chairman of the Finance and Planning Committee (1992-1998)

1969-1978, LOIC BOUVARD FRANCE S.A. (in 1973: BOUVARD-GAUTHIER-MARTICHOUX) Paris
Founder and CEO (management consulting firm)

1963-1969, McKINSEY & COMPANY, Geneva, Paris
Consultant in management

1956-1963, AIR FRANCE, New York
Assistant to the CEO for North America

1956, COMPAGNIE GENERALE D?ORGANISATION (management consulting firm), Paris
Consultant in management

Education
1951-1955, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton
Fulbright scholar, PhD in Political Science (1951-1953)
* Teaching Assistant (1954-1955)

1955, LAW SCHOOL OF PARIS UNIVERSITY, Paris
LLB

1947-1950, PARIS INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, Paris
Diploma

Medals
  • Cross of War, awarded for fighting in the French underground (F.F.I.) at Saint Marcel (Morbihan) in June 1944 (age 15)
  • Grand Cross, order of the Infant Don Enrique the Navigator (Portugal)
  • Grand Officer, order of the Ouissam Alaouite (Morocco)
  • Commander, order of the First Class Cavalry (Bulgaria)
  • Commander, order of Terra Mariana (Estonia)

Publications and essays
  • Interview of William Faulkner (1952)
  • Regionalism in theory and practice (Princeton PhD dissertation, 1953)
  • Pour une gestion dynamique des entreprises (For a dynamic management of firms, 1966)
  • Diriger c'est vouloir (French adaptation of Marvin Bower's The will to manage)
  • Le leadership en politique (Leadership in politics, France-Forum, 1984)
  • Several articles in the "Democratie Moderne" review (Modern Democracy)
  • Conferences in Seoul, Taiwan, Wesport and Stanford (USA) on Defense related issues

Other

  • Member of the French Automobile Club
  • Member of the France-USA committee