Philippe Jamet is in charge of the environment and sustainable development programs within the Science and Technology Office of the French Embassy to the
Dr. Jamet is a specialist in Environmental Earth Sciences. Prior to his diplomatic appointment, his research focuses were on groundwater resources and pollution modeling, brownfield sciences and irreversible thermodynamics applied to heat and mass transfer in geological media. During his research career, he has extended his areas of expertise to cleaner production processes, industrial ecology and sustainable land planning.
He held the chair in sustainable development sciences at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, an elite French school for executive engineers and has been a professor in applied ecology in Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées another engineering school of the ParisTech consortium. He has an extensive experience of building and managing postgraduate curricula in environmental management.
Dr. Jamet was advisor to the VIGEO company (sustainable development rating) from 2000 to 2004, advisor to the European Commission directorate general for sciences from 1999 to 2004, and advisor to the Cogema group (nuclear industry) from 1990 to 1996. He is a founding administrator of the European Institute for Sustainable Development.
He received a habilitation in environmental sciences from the
He has published 40 scientific articles, is the author or co-author of 3 scientific books, 2 novels, and a book on sustainable development targeting the general public.
Dr. Jamet is Knight of the French National Academic Palms Order (decoration for distinguished services to education).