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A leading figure in the European technology community, Pierre Haren is chairman and chief executive officer of ILOG. Haren cofounded ILOG in 1987, and after seeing quick growth in Europe, launched fully owned subsidiaries in Singapore, the United States and Japan. He took ILOG public on the NASDAQ in 1997, and on Le Nouveau Marché, now Euronext, in 1998.
Prior to ILOG, Haren spent four years at France's preeminent IT research institute, INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), where he led a team that produced breakthroughs in expert systems technology. Prior to INRIA, Haren was in charge of research funds for the French Ministry of the Sea, where he was involved in the creation of the French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) and the funding of what became Jacques Cousteau's Calypso 2, equipped with a revolutionary propulsion system.
Haren is a board member of ENPC, the graduate school for civil engineers. He is a founding member of the Académie des Technologies and was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur medal, one of France's highest honors. He is also a member of the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a member of the Visiting Committee of the Civil Engineering Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Haren earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at L'Ecole Polytechnique, a master's degree in engineering at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and a doctorate in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | 