Ghislaine Verrhiest-Leblanc

Director of DREAL Government inter-regional manager for flood risks in the Mediterranean arc, she holds a Ph.D and has done a research work in risk prevention. She has twenty years of experience in hazard prevention and has occupied different posts; for example: industrial risk prevention, control of nuclear plants, natural risk prevention like earthquakes, forest fires, floods, landslides. She is also the Vice- President of the French Association for Earthquake Engineering and has a diploma in paraseismic engineering of the National Architectural School of Marseille. Working with the minister of ecology since 2001, currently working as a project chief for flood prevention in the Mediterranean arc, her mission has strong links with the civil safety authorities, the 4 concerned regions and the 23 departments exposed to rapid floods, and the territorial authorities.