Dominique Louis

Dominique Louis is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Assystem SA.

A qualified engineer (ENSEM), Dominique Louis began his career as a testing engineer at ATEM, specializing in industrial and nuclear engineering. He then founded the company R’data, followed by Alphatem, a joint subsidiary with COGEMA, which were merged to form Assystem.

In 1995, Dominique Louis led the initial public offering of Assystem, which had a staff of 3,000 engineers and technicians at the time and had a turnover of €250 million.

The phasing-out of nuclear power in the late 90s marked the beginning of Assystem’s transformation, diversifying into the aeronautics and automotive sectors and achieving international growth. In 2017, Dominique Louis decided to focus the Group’s business back on its historic areas of expertise: nuclear power and complex infrastructures. As such, Assystem sold 60% of its outsourced R&D business to the investment fund Ardian and took a 5% shareholding in Framatome to confirm the Group’s role in the French nuclear sector.

In 2018, Dominique Louis and Jean-Louis Ricaud, Advisor to the CEO and Chief Operating Officer, published the book “2050: la France sans Carbone” (2050: A Carbon-Free France) and offered their uncompromising review of trends in global CO2 emissions and the solutions to be deployed to ensure access to competitive decarbonized energy for all. In 2021, Dominique and Jean-Louis Ricaud published their second book, “Energie nucléaire, le vrai risque” (Nuclear Energy, the real risk), in which they demonstrate how nuclear power is an essential solution to the climate challenge.

Dominique Louis has also been made a Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d’Honneur (Legion of Honour).