Pierre Claudel, new CEO of CETIAT

After studying engineering at the Ecole Centrale de Marseille, training recently completed with an MBA in General Management from the IFG/IAE Sorbonne, Pierre Claudel joined CETIAT in 1990. There he led a rich and diversified. Pierre Claudel began by supporting heating professionals for 10 years through studies to improve thermal performance and reduce pollutant emissions, tests for product certification and training. In 2000, he was appointed Director of the Metrology Division, in charge of calibrating sensors, studies and training in measurements, in particular energy quantities. It works for the recognition of three calibration laboratories (in hygrometry, anemometry and flowmetry of liquids) as reference laboratory of the French National Metrology Network. In 2014, he took over responsibility for the Testing, Calibration and Certification Department to structure CETIAT's activities based on the application of recognized standards or benchmarks.

In parallel with his responsibilities at CETIAT, he participated in the creation in 2002 of the Collège Français de Métrologie (CFM), an association for the dissemination of good practices in industrial measurement, of which he served as president between June 2010 and May 2014. He remains an active member as vice-president treasurer.

Pierre Claudel is a qualified person member of the Metrology Committee and an elected member of the COFRAC Laboratory Section Committee. He also participates in the Quality, Standardization and Performance Evaluation Commission of the CTI Network. Finally, he is a director of the Measurement Network, an association of SMEs in the instrumentation sector.

Ecological transition, decarbonization of industry, indoor air quality, these are the major issues for which CETIAT is committed alongside the professions. Pierre Claudel wishes to continue and amplify the actions initiated within the framework of the 2020-2023 Objectives and Performance Contract (COP) where CETIAT clearly displays its ambitions such as the development of aeraulic and thermal equipment with reduced carbon impact in response to the ecological and energy transition, the preservation of well-being and health in interior spaces, support for industrialists in their energy transition in the strategy carried out around the Industry of the future.

“This new responsibility is part of a continuity that makes sense, it's a fairly serene handover. I pushed the doors of the CETIAT more than 30 years ago, I was able to lead my career there and this, in various positions in several departments. The priority will be to ensure an appropriate response to the very high expectations of the profession and of our clients in an environment undergoing radical transformation in the face of various crises: climate, health and, most recently, the war in Ukraine. », Expresses Pierre Claudel, Managing Director.