Executive Board / Management Board

Christian PHILIP, Interim President of CODATU and President of the Wise Persons’ Committee

Christian PHILIP is a Professor of Law at University Lyon 3 and a specialist in European affairs. He has ser­ved as rector of the academy in different French districts. He was First Deputy to the Mayor of Lyon and Pre­sident of SYTRAL from 1995 to 2001. He later served as member of parliament for the Rhône district from 2002 to 2007. President of CODATU from 2000 to 2010, Christian Philip returned in 2013 as Secretary General.

Thibault De LAMBERT, General Secretary, President of the Business Club

After training as both an economist and a chartered accountant, Thibault de Lambert began his career as a financier in the chemicals industry, with the American group Ferro Chemical, before joining the Transdev group as Finance Director. He held this position for 23 years in 2 major subsidiaries of the group, operating the urban transport network in Grenoble and Strasbourg. In 2006, he took charge of development in France, then internationally, again within the Transdev group, before joining RATP in 2012, where he ended his career at the end of 2022 as Managing Director of RATP Coopération, the subsidiary in charge of the group’s development in developing countries. Since 2021, he has been volunteering with CODATU as its Secretary General. With over 30 years’ experience in passenger transport, he also works as an independent transport expert on mobility issues in cities in the South, institutional and operational governance, operations, economic models and the financing of transport systems.

Raymond DESCHAMPS, Treasurer

Raymond Deschamps managed the “Syndicat mixte des transports pour le Rhône, l’agglomération lyonnaise et le Département du Rhône” (SYTRAL), first as Deputy Chief Executive Officer for 6 years and then as Chief Executive Officer from 2011 to 2020. He has held the position of Administrative and Financial Director of several groups, including a subsidiary of PEUGEOT.

Marie-Hélène CHAPEL, Head of events, communication and President of the Volunteers Club

Graduated in Political Sciences, Marie-Hélène Chapel manages a consulting firm specialized in Sustainable Mobility Marketing.  She has worked as Marketing Director of SEMITAG (Grenoble urban transport network – Transdev Group), as Commercial Manager and Quality Manager of the Marseille Metro (Marseille Transport Authority) and as Head of the Commercial Department of RTM, Marseille Transport Authority.

Françoise ROSSIGNOL, President of the Public Transport Authorities (PTA) Club

Françoise Rossignol has been Mayor of Dainville since 2008 and Vice-President of the Urban Community of Arras in charge of Mobility since 2014. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of GART, and President for the Club des Villes et Territoires Cyclables et Marchables since 2021.

Catherine Pila, Vice-President of the PTA Club

Catherine PILA is a councillor of the Metropolitan Council of Aix Marseille Provence, Chairwoman of the Régie des Transports Métropolitains (RTM) and Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the AGIR Transport association.

Dominique Breuil, President of the Education and Research Committee

Doctor of Science and Engineer, Dominique Breuil was Director of Research at EIGSI (School of Engineering of La Rochelle) and head of the Intelligent Mobility team until 2016. With more than 40 years of experience in various research and engineering positions, he is a consultant in new mobilities.

Bruno Loustalet, Vice-President of the Wise Persons’ Committee

Bruno Loustalet is a research associate at the RIVES Laboratory at ENTPE (Vaulx-en-Velin) and holds a double doctorate in town planning and political economy. For more than 25 years, he held various engineering positions in companies promoting radio communication systems applied to public transport. Between 2008 and 2020, he was Mayor of Thil, a suburban commune near Lyon, and Vice-Chairman of its intercommunal authority in charge of transport.

Armand BEOUINDE, President of the Committee of Developing Cities

Armand Roland Pierre BEOUINDE has been Mayor of the city of Ouagadougou, President of the Greater Ouaga Community of Municipalities (Greater Ouaga Metropolis), President of the Greater Ouaga Urban Mobility Programme, President of the Association of Municipalities of Burkina Faso, Vice-President of UCLG-World (United Cities and Local Governments). He was a member of the Board of Directors of AIMF (Association Internationale des Maires Francophones). He is currently a member of the Bureau of the Council of Local Authorities of the UEMOA (West African Economic and Monetary Union), and is a trained manager, company director and company director.

Guy Lebras, President of Relations with Companies and PTAs

Guy Le Bras trained as a civil engineer at the Ecole des Mines and is the former Managing Director of the Groupement des Autorités Responsables de Transport (GART), an association of elected representatives responsible for transport at national and European level. He began his career as head of relations between Renault Véhicules Industriels and the World Bank, then as head of bus sales for south-east France. In 1995, he became Chief of Staff to the Mayor of Laval and then, from 1997, Director of Laval Mayenne Technopole. He joined Veolia Transport in 2006, where he was Director of External Relations.

Bruno Jansem, Vice-President for Relations with Companies and PTAs

Bruno Jansem is a qualified architect, has a doctorate in town planning and is a geographer. He was Director of Mobility and Transport at Strasbourg Eurométropole.