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Patrick Gandil - France

Patrick Gandil - France

Biography

Patrick Gandil was promoted to the post of Director General of Civil Aviation on 3 October 2007.

He graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1975, and from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1980.

During his long career, Patrick Gandil has worked within the Department of Public Works and Transport in several positions at headquarters and regional offices, with an exception from 1995 to 1997 when he was deputy director in the cabinet of Mr Dominique Perben, then minister for State Reform, Decentralisation and Public Services.

From 1979, when he started as a trainee in charge of planning the Loing River Improvement Scheme, to 2005, when he created the post of Secretary General of the Department of Public Works and Transport, he held a number of high-level positions in this department: as deputy director of the regional office of "Haute Saône" (1981 to 1984), and director of "Val d’Oise" (1994 to 1995), before heading the airports department at the DGAC (1997 to 1999) and the roads and highways directorate (1999 to 2003). He was then called to the cabinet of the minister where he acted as head of cabinet from 2003 to 2005.

He also taught at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées from 1986 to 1996 as a professor of highway engineering.

Mr Gandil was president of the EUROCONTROL Provisional Council from 2009 to 2013, and has been vice-president of ECAC since 2009.

He received the distinction of "Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur" in 1999, "Officier de l’ordre national du mérite" in 2007, "Officier de l’ordre national de la Légion d’honneur" in 2010 and "Médaille aéronautique" in 2013.

Patrick Gandil was born on 29 March 1956. He is married with two children. He holds a private pilot's licence and a microlight licence.

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