Rémi Bastien

Remi received his engineering diploma from ECAM in 1980. He joined the RENAULT group in 1982, and after different responsibilities, he was Vice- President for Research and Innovation for RENAULT Group (2009-15), before becoming Global Director for Autonomous Driving Prospective at the Renault/Nissan Alliance (2015-16) and finally Vice President, Automobile Prospective for RENAULT Group till 2021. He is an honorary chairman of NEXT MOVE (French cluster dedicated to mobility), CTO of FISITA and member of the Shift Project (think tank for sustainable economy). He was a member of the EUCAR council (former chairman in 2012), Chairman of VEDECOM (French cooperative research institute) from 2017 to 2020, and Director of the program “Power Electronics” for the French Automotive Industry and French Electronic Industry from 2020 to the end of 2021. He is the co-author with Luc JULIA of the book “On va droit dans le mur?”.