Executive Vice-President, in charge of innovation and economic development, IFPEN

Cécile Barrère-Tricca, 54, is a chemical engineer from the École nationale supérieure des ingénieurs en arts chimiques et technologiques (Ensiacet), holds a MSc in materials science from the Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT) and a PhD in polymer chemistry and physical chemistry from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). She is an auditor for the cycle des hautes études pour le développement économique (CHEDE 2019) and the cycle supérieur du développement durable (CSDD 2022).

She joined IFPEN in 1998 as a research engineer in the “Catalysis, Biocatalysis and Separation” Research Division. In 2001, she became project manager in the field of gas and smoke treatment before taking on a similar role in the field of advanced biofuels, in 2006, within the “Process Design and Modeling” Research Division.

In 2008, Cécile Barrère-Tricca was appointed head of the “Process Design” Department and then, in 2010, head of the “Chemical Engineering and Technology” Department. In 2014, she was appointed Director of the “Physics and Analysis” Research Division. In 2017, Cécile Barrère-Tricca became IFPEN-Lyon site director. She chaired the AXELERA “Chemistry-Environment” competitiveness cluster from 2019 to 2021.

Since January 2023, she was Director of the Research and Innovation Business Unit “Chemistry for Industry” at IFPEN.

In December 2024, she was appointed Executive Vice-President at IFPEN, in charge of Innovation and Economic Development.