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Proposed by the board of Universcience, Bruno Maquart was appointed president by the French Council of ministers on Wednesday June 24th 2015. He succeeds Claudie Haigneré in a presidential term that will last 5 years.

An agricultural engineer graduate of the National Agronomic Institute Paris-Grignon, a former student of the Ecole nationale d'administration and general inspector of social affairs, Bruno Maquart was chief of staff to Marisol Touraine Minister of social affairs, of health and of women's rights.

General Director of the Centre Pompidou from 2001 to 2007, he was then until 2010 the General Director of the France-Muséums Agency, responsible for the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

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Universcience

Universcience, the leading French public institution promoting scientific, technical and industrial culture in France, comprises the Palais de la Découverte, the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, leblob.fr, an online scientific information media, "Fablab à l’École", a nationwide cultural and scientific education programme, and the organisation of the "Spring of Critical Thinking" and the "Critical Thinking Barometer", designed to encourage critical thinking.