The contributors

Bernard Barraqué

Emeritus Research Director, **AgroParisTech**

Sophie Besnault

Research Engineer, **INRAE**

Sandra Binot-Renou

Lecturer in Management Sciences, **Université Paris-Est Créteil**

Guy Burette

President, **Syndicat des Eaux du Vexin**

Isabelle Calvez

Director of Human Resources, **Veolia**

Olivier Carlat

Director of Human Resources, **Veolia**

Julian Carrey

Researcher, **INSA Toulouse**

Manuel Cermerón Romero

Chief Executive Officer, **Veolia España**

Dorothée Charlier

Lecturer, **Université Savoie Mont-Blanc**

Konstantinos Chatzis

Researcher, **École des Ponts ParisTech – LATTS**

Antoine Compagnon

Member of the **French Academy**

Marc Conesa

Researcher, **University of Toulouse**

Didier Courboillet

Deputy General Manager of Waste Recycling and Valorization, **Veolia France**

Victor Court

Assistant Professor, **IFPEN**

Jérôme Denis

Researcher, **Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris**

Séverine Dinghem

Director of Support to Business and Performance, **Veolia**

Nathalie Dufresne

Deputy Legal Director, **Veolia**

Christian Duquennoi

Research Engineer, **Irstea**

Daniel Florentin

Assistant Professor, **Mines ParisTech**

Pierre Forgereau

Director of Artois Douaisis Territory for Water Activity, **Veolia**

Stéphanie Foucard

Director of Knowledge about Society and Consumer Behavior, **CITEO**

Antoine Frérot

Chairman and CEO, **Veolia**

Martial Gabillard

Director of Resource Valorization, **Veolia**

Feryel Gadhoum

Business Communication Manager, **Veolia**

Bruno Godfroy

Deputy General Manager, **Veolia Water**

François Guénéron

Director of Plastic Flow in France, **Veolia**

Valérie Guillard

Professor, **Université Paris-Dauphine**

Philippe Guitard

Director of Central and Eastern Europe Zone, **Veolia**

Philippe Hartemann

Professor, **University of Nancy**

Patrick Hasbroucq

Director of Industrial Units in Hauts-de-France, **Veolia**

Marc-Olivier Houel

General Manager of Waste Recycling and Valorization, **Veolia**

Marie-Christine Huau

Agronomist and Oceanographer, Water and Climate Director, **Veolia**

Eric Issanchou

Technical Director of Water Activity in Ile-de-France, **Veolia**

Cédric L'Elchat

General Manager, SARPI, **Veolia**

Jean-Marie Lambert

Former Advisor to the President and HR Director, **Veolia**

Stéphanie Laronde

Director of Support Department, **International Office for Water**

Claude Laruelle

Deputy General Manager in charge of Finance, Digital, and Procurement, **Veolia**

Esther Lett-Bariau

Water France Project Manager and Communication Director for Water Normandy, **Veolia**

Dominique Lorrain

Emeritus Research Director, **CNRS**

Stefan Louillat

Head of Renewable Electricity and Networks Service, **ADEME**

Alexander Mallinson

Regional Director of Waste Recycling and Valorization Activity - Southwest Region, **Veolia**

Christophe Maquet

Director of Asia Pacific Zone, **Veolia**

Helen Micheaux

Lecturer in Management Sciences, **AgroParisTech**

Sandrine Motte

CEO, **Eaux de Marseille**

Jean-François Nogrette

Director of France and Special Waste Europe, **Veolia**

Hervé Paillard

Department Director for Processes & Industrialization at **Veolia Environnement**'s Technical Division

Annaïg Pesret-Bougaran

Sector Director - Arc en Ciel 2034, **Veolia**

Sophie Petibon

Sales Director France - Waste Recycling and Valorization, **Veolia**

Christelle Pezon

Lecturer, **Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers**

Jean-Philippe Pierron

Author and Philosophy Professor, **University of Burgundy**

Franck Pilard

Commercial Director for Local Government Services France - Waste Recycling and Valorization Activity, **Veolia**

Dylan Planque

PhD Candidate and Researcher, **Veolia**

Yvan Poussade

Senior Process Engineer, **Veolia**

Grégory Quenet

Environmental Historian and Professor, **University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris-Saclay)**

François Reboul-Salze

Innovation Manager and REUT Expert, **Veolia**

Pierre Ribaute

General Manager Water France, **Veolia**

Dominique Richit

Former CEO, **Veolia Nuclear Solution**

Yannick Rumpala

Director, **Research Team on the Transformations of Europe and its Societies (ERMES)**

Christophe Schuermans

Market and Portfolio Development Director - Building Energy Services, **Veolia**

Paul-Antoine Sebbe

CEO of SEDE, **Veolia**

Géraldine Sénémaud

Consumer Director of Water France Activity, **Veolia**

Francisco Silverio Marques

Vice President - Building Energy Services, **Veolia**

Jean-Christophe Taret

Director of Development and Innovation, France and Special Waste Europe, **Veolia**

Julien Thual

Anaerobic Digestion Engineer, **ADEME**

Thierry Trotouin

Director of Industrial Water Markets, **Veolia**

Frédéric Van Heems

President and CEO of **Veolia North America**

Jacques Vernier

Chairman of the Biotechnology Dialogue Committee, **ANSES**

Françoise Weber

Director, **Veolia Propreté**

Remerciements

Our thanks also go to all the communication teams at Veolia, in the group, in France and around the world, to those of our customers and to the members of the association La Pompe de Cornouailles for their support, the collection of testimonies and the documentary work provided, in particular to Delphine Allard, Laure Antoni, Claire Billon-Galland, Mar Coma, Lucie Debroise, Jean-Claude Delorme, Fanny Demulier, Laure Duquesne, Valerie Eloy, Feryel Gadhoum, Carrie Griffiths, Jose Guerra, Denisse Ike, Charlotte Kerihuel, Andy Kneeland, Eloïse Laurence, Gabriella Lazzoni, Camille Lebon, Adam Lisberg, Malek Loulou, Robert Lozano, Sophie Montmailler, Amélie Ozenne, Olivier Perret, Karine Reboul, Benoît de la Rochefordière, Justine Shui, Guillaume de Stordeur, Arthur Thoux. Merci dans le même sens à Julie Tedde, Régis Annebicque et Flora Roussel, ainsi qu’à Huguette Bataille, Dolorès Bonéré, Mylène Dormegnie, Mariazita Fernandes, Stéphanie Milijic, Isabelle Perry, et Léonie Vayssade.