Catherine Rivière

Catherine Rivière is an engineer who graduated from ENSIMAG (École nationale supérieure d’informatique et de mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble - Grenoble School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics). She joined IFPEN in 1983 as a research engineer based in the Reservoir Engineering Division where she worked on the development of numerical simulation models.

In 1992, she moved to the Research and Development Division as a special assistant. In 1994, she was appointed associate director of Exploration Reservoir, and subsequently deputy director in 1996. In 2001, she left IFPEN to take over as CEO of the subsidiary TECH’advantage.

From 2007 to 2017 she was CEO of GENCI, the company responsible for implementing national policy in France relative to the provision of high-performance computing tools for public research.

In 2017, Catherine Rivière was appointed Director of the Energy Resources Business Unit.

She was appointed Executive Vice-President of Research and Innovation in 2019.