About

Etienne Mansard was born on October 9, 1946 in Karaikal, India, one of the old South-Indian French territories. He obtained his civil engineering degree from the University of Annamalai and his MTech in hydraulics from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. Three years later he moved to the Grenoble University in France where he acquired his PhD thesis in 1976. He joined the National Research Council of Canada NRC in 1976, and is now Executive Director of the Canadian Hydraulics Centre of NRC. During his career, he developed several state-of-the-art concepts for the simulation of sea states in laboratory basins to advance the understanding of the complex physics involved in wave-structure interactions. He is currently an expert in laboratory reproduction of waves, and has participated in several international committees on waves and breakwaters. Mansard’s contribution to IAHR initiated from 1981 with international working groups on comparative data analysis. He would like to foster such collaborations and make IAHR one of the focal points for research in maritime hydraulics. He sees IAHR in the new millennium as one of the primary organizations that can act as a forum for facilitating decisions on important global issues related to water resources and hydraulics. Mansard was chairman of the IAHR Maritime Hydraulics Section from 1993 and was elected IAHR Council Member during the 1997 San Francisco IAHR Congress, and IAHR vice-president during the 1999 Graz IAHR Congress. During the 2003 Thessaloniki IAHR Congress, Mansard was elected President of IAHR. Mansard would like to support IAHR 2003 - as a leading organization in hydraulics and would like to take the challenge of reaching out more to applications-oriented clients and to the corporate members by identifying and addressing their requirements. He looks forward to continuing collaborating with the Council and all IAHR members to increase the impact of the IAHR organization on the international community of hydraulic engineers and decision makers.

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