Bernard Le Guen, Executive Officer

Bernard Le Guen is a medical doctor, specializing in medical biology and in occupational medicine. He has a science master degree and a doctoral diploma in molecular biology. He began his career in 1989 as house physician at Paris Hospitals (radiotherapy, hematology, medical biology), then in 1992 a researcher on carcinogenesis and liver cancer at the French national institute for medical research (INSERM).

In 1995, he joined the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) where he served as radiation protection expert and medical expert to occupational physicians regarding the monitoring of workers exposed to internal contamination risks. In parallel, he coordinated French-Ukrainian research studies on children born after the Chernobyl accident

Since 1999, he has worked at Electricité de France (EDF), as director of the EDF radio-toxicology laboratory until 2005. Up to September 2008, he was deputy director of the CEIDRE, corporate chemical and metallurgical laboratories with 650 technician and engineers. Since 2006, he has been medical and scientific advisor of the EDF RP Board, in charge of allocation of over 3 MEuros research grants every year in the RP field

Between September 2008 and July 2010, he worked as RP director at Belleville/Loire NPP operated by EDF.

In 2010, he was appointed Radiation Protection and Industrial Safety Vice President for the fleet in operation and has been in this function since that date.

Dr. Le Guen is a member of the permanent working group on radiation protection (GP RAD) of the French nuclear regulatory authority. He is in charge of RP lectures at the Medical University of Paris and in different RP masters degrees. He has more than 100 national and international publications on radiation protection, was in 2011 co-coordinator of the French academy of Science report on Health consequences of the Fukushima accident.

He was a French Delegate to the IRPA 11 and 12 Congresses, as well as serving on the Scientific Programme Committee for European IRPA Congresses in Paris (2006) and Helsinki (2010).

He was an IRPA Executive Council Member from 2008-2012 and elected IRPA Executive Officer in Glasgow for the period spanning 2012-2016.

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