Myriam MERAD

**Myriam MERAD** **Research Director/Professor, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France** Myriam Merad serves as Research Director/Professor at CNRS - UMR LAMSADE (Dauphine University). She leads research in Risk, resilience and sustainability governance and Decisions in safety, security and Health and Environment. Myriam Merad is primarily interested in the link between Science and Decision and mainly in expertise framing, regulatory and policy analysis and participative/deliberative decision analysis. ***Short bio*** Myriam MERAD is a Civil engineer (graduated in 1997, Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics d’Alger- Algeria). She obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) (ISG Alger and IEFSI - groupe EDHEC France) in 1999, a Research Master (DEA) in scientific methods in management science (operational research and decision aid) in 2000, a PhD in Management Sciences (Decision-aiding) in 2003 (Dauphine university, Paris) and a Habilitation - Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches - (HDR is in France a high-level specialization university-granted and higher education-sanctioned degree obtained post PhD needed to access the rank of Professeur des Universites) in 2011. Her fields of expertise are in risk, resilience and sustainability governance and decision analysis in safety, security and health- environment. Myriam MERAD began her career in Algeria in the field of parasismic engineering and in the civil engineering in 1996. She has joined INERIS (National French Institute for Environment and Industrial Risks) in 1999. From 1999 to 2003, during her PhD, she was in charge of developing methodologies to prevent risks of subsidence and collapse due to post-mining activities (ex. Mining Risk Prevention Plans) at the Soil and Sub-soil Division. In 2003, she joined the Accidental Risks Division of the Institute. Between 2003 and 2008, she contributed to European Union and French research programmes in risk governance (e.g. Trustnet-in-Action, STARC, SAPHIR, French Research Programmes SOCECO2 ...) and to research programmes in the field of Technological Risk Prevention (e.g. Acceptrisk). The general objectives of these programmes where, in one hand to contribute to a more inclusive risk governance in France and, in another hand, to improve the ongoing practices in risk prevention by developing methodologies using expert-judgement and decision aiding tools especially applied to support the land-use planning policies and decision around Seveso plants. These research projects and programs were action-research to support Ministry of Environment in framing new regulations and decision criteria in the aftermath of the Toulouse ammonium nitrate disaster (2001). From 2005-2008, she was the head of “Societal Risk Management” and “Governance, human and Organizational factors” research and expert groups at INERIS, managing successively 20 people (engineers, PhD student, technicians, trainee, secretary). In 2009, she was nominated as a sustainable development delegate at INERIS where she was asked to define the policy, the strategy and the sustainable development action plan for the Institute. In October 2010, she chaired for the French Ministry of Environment at a national level a working group on sustainable development governance within public organizations. Four national guidelines were published in March 2013. She has been nominated in April 2014 to become a lead in Human, organizational and societal factors at Chronic Risks Division where she has contributed to the National and Regional Air Pollution Risk Prevention Plants. In October 2016, Myriam Merad was nominated at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) as a Research Director/Professor. Since her nomination, she chaired the ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health &amp; Safety) working group on integrated approach to food safety (biological and chemical hazards) (2017-2020) and coordinates different projects on different types of risks: flooding, nanotechnology, high threshold Seveso facility, radiological risks, ... She supports since 2019 IRSN (French national expert institute for nuclear safety and radiological protection) in the field of multi-criteria and multi-stakeholders’ expertise and decision-aiding. Merad is also active in many other risk-related institutes and scientific societies: She was a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of IRSTEA (former CEMAGREF, the French institute, the national institute of science and technology for environment and agriculture and current INRAE) from 2009 to 2017 and chairman or co-chairman of different expert working groups within the Institut de Maîtrise des Risques (IMdR, the French engineer association in risk, safety and reliability management), AFPCNT (French association for the prevention of technological and natural disasters) and “Association Française des Ingénieurs et Techniciens de l’Environnement” (AFITE, the French environment engineers and technicians association). She was a Councilor of the SRA (from 2017-2020) and the President of the Scientific Committee of AFPCNT. She is also a member of the editorial board of Springer’s Environment, systems &amp; Decisions journal (formerly The Environmentalist). In 2020 she was nominated as Member of Advisory Council for the Prevention of Major Natural Risks (COPRNM), National expert to the European Science and Technology Advisory Group (E-STAG) to UNDRR and as a Consultation Garantor at the National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP). In November 2020 she has joined the Board of Directors of Paris Dauphine University. She is the author of six books (in French, on decision aiding, expertise and risk assessment and management; concertation and mediation in environment, managing the organizational change of sustainable development, 1 in English); she has contributed to different national guidelines and legislations in the field of safety and sustainability; has written more than 70 papers in scientific journals and in conferences, and has communicated in 130 conferences and seminars. She has contributed to organize more than 40 technical and scientific seminars, conferences and meetings. **For more information:** [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Myriam\_Merad](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Myriam_Merad) and <https://www.linkedin.com/in/myriam-merad-014a2670/>