It was both a time of intense emotion and pride

When General engineer of mines cedes its place to one that has closed... Unlike Jean Syrota, Philippe de Ladoucette, fifty-eight years, his successor at the head of the Commission on regulation of energy (CRE), does not belong to the very influential body of Mines, which is escape a key position, yet guigné by several of its leading members. In fact mine, are mainly those of coal that have so far attracted the attention of the new Constable of energy. Appointed President and CEO of France coal (CDF) early 1996, he applied since implementing gradual discontinuation of coal mining in France, under the guidance of the "coal Pact." A site that he drove as "it is an enterprise project, step by step", said. And symbolically completed two years ago, on 23 April 2004, when was extracted the last block of French coal in the well of the O in Creutzwald, in Moselle. "It was both a time of intense emotion and pride."

"A man of listening".

Close mines is one thing, without put minors on straw or drive it into the street is another. Well that arrived at the head of CDF in a tense social climate the conflict emerged in the wake of the major strikes of December 1995 had cost his position to his predecessor, Jacques Bouvet , Philippe de Ladoucette, described generally as asked and conciliatory, has managed to settle the fever. "This is a man of listening and dialogue," said one of his former close associates in CFD, which recognizes however that the former President was not the type to type in the back of his subordinates... not very inclined to descend to the bottom of the wells.

Another point to his credit: he will be also able to soothe relations between the leadership of CDF and... the State shareholder. Appointed by the right, but maintained by the left, Philippe de Ladoucette, who was a member of the political bureau of the Republican from 1986 to 1994, is a close of Alain Madelin, which he was technical advisor to the Ministry of industry during the first cohabitation and Deputy Director of cabinet in the Ministry of business from 1993 to 1994. After this second foray into the small world corporate firms that it has joined the company and put one foot in the CDF House, as President of coal basin of the Centre and the Midi (HBCM), a subsidiary of coal.

Armed with degrees he is doctor in sociology and Economics and holds a postgraduate planning and development of the territory and the son of a colonel and a lyrical artist made its classes to the Datar, where he joined as chargé de mission in 1974, three years before becoming Commissioner of the industrialization of the Ardennes. Good knowledge of industrial conversion issues, passed by the General Secretariat for the Channel Tunnel between its two cabinet, Philippe de Ladoucette experiments discovered the world of energy at CDF. But his experience in the field is not restricted to only coal. Surrender in two time Spanish Endesa the WOMEN'SNET, ex-filiale of electricity of CDF, is not the first business executive to have been able to privatize a French electricity company