Yves Sillard is a French scientist and High public servant who played a major role in the development of the

French space program The French space program includes both civil and military spaceflight activities. It is the third oldest national space program in the world, after the Soviet (now Russian) and American space programs, and the largest space program in Europe. B ...

( Ariane). He headed the

CNES The (CNES; French: ''Centre national d'études spatiales'') is the French government space agency (administratively, a "public administration with industrial and commercial purpose"). Its headquarters are located in central Paris and it is und ...

IFREMER IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer; ) is an oceanographic institution in Brest, France. Scope of works Ifremer focuses its research activities in the following areas: * Monitoring, use and enhancement of coa ...

, and the Délégation générale pour l'armement (

General Directorate for Armament A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED O ...

Biography in short

1936 Birth in Coutances (Manche) 1954 enters

École polytechnique École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

1957 chooses the

Corps de l'armement The Corps de l'armement, or ''corps des ingénieurs de l'armement'' is a Technical Grand Corps of the French State (''grand corps de l'Etat''), aimed at providing the French Armed Forces with all appropriate equipment and at supervising the French ...

1959 graduates from Supaéro 1964

Secrétariat général à l'Aviation civile The Directorate General for Civil Aviation (french: Direction générale de l'aviation civile, DGAC) is the French civil aviation authority. Its headquarters are in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, 50 Henry-Farman. It is subordinate to the Minis ...

, Programme manager for

Concorde The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde () is a retired Franco-British supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France an ...

1969-1971 Head of the Centre spatial guyanais 1976-1982 General Director of the

1982-1988 CEO of

1989-1993 Délégué général pour l'armement 1994-1997 CEO Défense conseil international 1998 Assistant General Secretary for Scientific and Environmental Affairs at

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

Books by Yves Sillard (in French)

5 Avril 2007, Cherche Midi, Phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés: Un défi pour la science

References

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