Dr. Eric Tardieu is Director General of the International Office for Water (OiEau) since 2017, and Secretary General of the International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO) since 2018. He also serves as Vice-President of the World Water Council and as IWRA’s Awards Committee Chair.
He is an Environmental Engineering, graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, prestigious post-graduate multidisciplinary engineering French school, with a PhD in membrane filtration applied to urban wastewater treatment. He served for French Ministries of Agriculture and Environment as a water policy officer, applying and managing national and European regulations. He then held successive responsible positions in the public sector for national (Ministry of Industry), regional (Normandy region) and local authorities (Toulouse), implementing policy regulations, designing multistakeholders strategies and plans of measures. He has been engaged not only in the field of water resources management and environmental protection, but also public policies for innovation, research and attractivity, public private partnerships or European and international cooperations.
