Philippe Baptiste

During 2020, Baptiste was appointed Partner and Director of American global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group.

During May 2017 to 2019, Batiste was named chief of staff to French-based biochemist, academic administrator, and politician who served as Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal. After which in 2019 Batiste was an advisor to the French prime Minister Édouard Philippe, During this time Batiste was in close connection with the space policy.

In 2016, Baptiste was appointed as Chief Scientific Officer and later in 2017 named Chief Technology Officer of oil, natural gas, and speciality chemicals company Total. Furthermore, Baptiste has aided in founding and developing a number of start-ups and followed several collaborations with digital, defence and aviation manufactures.

Furthermore, for more than ten years during 2001 to 2012 Baptiste was a lecturer at France's Ecole Polytechnique engineering school. During this time he published several books and around 150 scientific papers, and became the head of Ecole Polytechnique engineering school's information technology laboratory and is credited with creating the Institute of Information Sciences and Interactions prior to being appointed Associate Director General in 2014 of CNRS.

In November 2000, Batiste was awarded the Cor Baayen Award for his PHD thesis in an ERCIM country which include: Cyprus, Poland, France, Germany, Austria, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, The Netherlands, Finland and Sweden. Baptiste won this award fue to the quality of his PHD thesis and his previous publications and achievements up to the year 2000.

In 1999 during his academic career, Baptiste was a researcher at the French National scientific research centre (CNRS), in addition to IBM's Watson Research Center during 2000 to 2001.

During 1999, Batisete was awarded the Prix Robert Faure award by the French Operations Research & Decision Support Society(ROADEF), a non-profit society that aims to promote scientific fields of operations Research and Decision in France. The award is in tribute to Professor Robert Faure and available to younger researchers (under 36) who are members of ROADEF, and is awarded every 3 years.

Philippe Baptiste (born March 28, 1972) is a French engineer, academic and researcher. Baptiste is most well known as the president of the National Centre for Space Studies CNES in addition to his several books and scientific publications and communications in the field of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operational research and artificial intelligence.

Baptiste was born on March 28, 1972, in France. Baptise holds a PHD in computer science from the University of Technology of Compiègne additionally he is a civil engineering graduate from the Ecole des Mines engineering school in Nancy. Baptise also holds a Msc from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and holds a DEA postgraduate diploma from Sorbonne University and is a research director. Baptiste specialises in operational research and artificial intelligence(AI), combinatorial optimisation, and algorithms.