François Pougel
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Bio
Paul Nash
Francois worked for me for many years as part of Airbus Group. During this period Francois fulfilled multiple roles which demonstrated his ability to multi task and to take on a project from initiation to competition. He has great networking skills and an ability to bring together different people from disparate groups resulting in common direction and strategy. The key activity during this period was to support the management of the Airbus group environmental network managing the harmonisation, strategy and best practice sharing for tasks such as hazardous substance management, design for environment and end of life.
Stephane Mezange
I have had the pleasure to have François in my team as a public funding and strategy project leader, and the first thing that struck me is his ability to work so easily with everyone. His discernment and his capacity to quickly master new subjects are just as impressive. His work has been extremely valuable, and I already miss his positive outlook and easy-going character. Highly recommended!
Paul Nash
Francois worked for me for many years as part of Airbus Group. During this period Francois fulfilled multiple roles which demonstrated his ability to multi task and to take on a project from initiation to competition. He has great networking skills and an ability to bring together different people from disparate groups resulting in common direction and strategy. The key activity during this period was to support the management of the Airbus group environmental network managing the harmonisation, strategy and best practice sharing for tasks such as hazardous substance management, design for environment and end of life.
Stephane Mezange
I have had the pleasure to have François in my team as a public funding and strategy project leader, and the first thing that struck me is his ability to work so easily with everyone. His discernment and his capacity to quickly master new subjects are just as impressive. His work has been extremely valuable, and I already miss his positive outlook and easy-going character. Highly recommended!
Paul Nash
Francois worked for me for many years as part of Airbus Group. During this period Francois fulfilled multiple roles which demonstrated his ability to multi task and to take on a project from initiation to competition. He has great networking skills and an ability to bring together different people from disparate groups resulting in common direction and strategy. The key activity during this period was to support the management of the Airbus group environmental network managing the harmonisation, strategy and best practice sharing for tasks such as hazardous substance management, design for environment and end of life.
Stephane Mezange
I have had the pleasure to have François in my team as a public funding and strategy project leader, and the first thing that struck me is his ability to work so easily with everyone. His discernment and his capacity to quickly master new subjects are just as impressive. His work has been extremely valuable, and I already miss his positive outlook and easy-going character. Highly recommended!
Paul Nash
Francois worked for me for many years as part of Airbus Group. During this period Francois fulfilled multiple roles which demonstrated his ability to multi task and to take on a project from initiation to competition. He has great networking skills and an ability to bring together different people from disparate groups resulting in common direction and strategy. The key activity during this period was to support the management of the Airbus group environmental network managing the harmonisation, strategy and best practice sharing for tasks such as hazardous substance management, design for environment and end of life.
Stephane Mezange
I have had the pleasure to have François in my team as a public funding and strategy project leader, and the first thing that struck me is his ability to work so easily with everyone. His discernment and his capacity to quickly master new subjects are just as impressive. His work has been extremely valuable, and I already miss his positive outlook and easy-going character. Highly recommended!
Credentials
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Private Pilot Licence
Direction Generale de l'Aviation Civile
Experience
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The Degrees Initiative
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United Kingdom
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Transition Manager
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Mar 2021 - Present
I am currently consulting for the Degrees Initiative as transition manager while it becomes an independent NGO in the UK, overseeing the next stages of the initiative's organisational development while ensuring the continuity of programmes in partnership with TWAS-UNESCO. My role also includes supporting our Board and CEO, managing external communications, and supporting fundraising activities.
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Programme Manager
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Jan 2017 - Mar 2021
The SRM Governance Initiative was launched in 2010 as a partnership between the Royal Society, The World Academy of Sciences (UNESCO) and Environmental Defense Fund. Its mission is to expand an informed global conversation about solar climate engineering and build southern capacity to evaluate this controversial technology. From 2017 to 2020, I led our programme of outreach, working in a dozen countries. In 2018, I managed the launch of DECIMALS—the world's first climate engineering research programme and fund for developing countries. Since its inception, the programme has deeply changed the demographics of the field, and its capacity-building model has been widely acclaimed. In 2021, our fund was chosen as one of the Paris Peace Forum’s ten scale-up projects.
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BE.ive
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Germany
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Business Consulting and Services
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Co-founder & Managing Partner
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Nov 2017 - Dec 2020
Co-founded a boutique consultancy focusing on entrepreneurial sustainability and non-profit management. Clients included start-ups, incubators, investment banks, universities, and non-profits. Duties included business development, consulting, financial management. Co-founded a boutique consultancy focusing on entrepreneurial sustainability and non-profit management. Clients included start-ups, incubators, investment banks, universities, and non-profits. Duties included business development, consulting, financial management.
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Research Associate
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Feb 2016 - Dec 2017
Researched the sustainability impacts of Industry 4.0 and E-governance. Lead Author of E-Gov and Sustainability: a Literature Review (Pougel et al., 2018). Co-author of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation’s report: Accelerating clean energy through Industry 4.0: manufacturing the next revolution. Researched the sustainability impacts of Industry 4.0 and E-governance. Lead Author of E-Gov and Sustainability: a Literature Review (Pougel et al., 2018). Co-author of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation’s report: Accelerating clean energy through Industry 4.0: manufacturing the next revolution.
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Airbus
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Aviation & Aerospace
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1 - 100 Employee
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Strategy & Public Funding Project Leader
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Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Led a task force to set the company’s future industrial environmental goals. Helped intrapreneurs fund projects with environmental benefits, from identifying schemes to issuing recommendations to facilitating applications. One of the projects I supported raised over seven million euros.
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Group Environment Network Coordinator
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Oct 2012 - Feb 2015
Coordinated a group-wide network of experts on key sustainability issues such as hazardous substances, life-cycle analysis, and end-of-life management. Key achievements included harmonised internal policies, strategies and positions, reinforced risk management, executive reporting (up to the CEO), best-practice sharing between the company's divisions, and further strategic development of the network. Other activities included writing briefing notes on sustainability issues such as ESG rating or climate change, contributing to the annual CSR and Board reports, and being a member of the organisational team for the group's annual environment forums (2013, 2014).
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Compliance Officer
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Jul 2012 - Oct 2012
Ensured compliance with importation rules under the REACH European regulation on chemical substances. Interim role pending recruitment.
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International Environmental Affairs Officer
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Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
Organised the International Aerospace Environmental Group's (IAEG) kick-off event in Seville, from overseeing venues and logistics to supporting the working groups and Board of Directors. Coordinated a task force of the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) to publish sectoral regulatory guidance (REACH).
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Laboratoire d'Aérologie
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France
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Research Services
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Research Assistant
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Apr 2011 - Jun 2011
Study of tropical-like Mediterranean storms as part of the HYMEX Programme (HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean EXperiment). The research consisted in evaluating a model’s ability to simulate a medicane observed in the Tyrrhenian Sea in 2007. ECMWF reanalysis datasets were compared against different simulation runs from Meso-NH, the non-hydrostatic mesoscale atmospheric model of the French research community. Study of tropical-like Mediterranean storms as part of the HYMEX Programme (HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean EXperiment). The research consisted in evaluating a model’s ability to simulate a medicane observed in the Tyrrhenian Sea in 2007. ECMWF reanalysis datasets were compared against different simulation runs from Meso-NH, the non-hydrostatic mesoscale atmospheric model of the French research community.
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Education
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2012 - 2013
Sciences Po Toulouse
Master's degree, Geopolitics & International Relations -
2011 - 2012
Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III)
Master's degree, Earth Science and Environment
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