After serving for 37 years as professional in this fire department, Jean-Paul Monet moved for two years and half as HSES director by ACC, batteries manufacturing company (https://www.acc-emotion.com/batteries).

Detaining a master degree of pharmacy, this 63 years old officer has been working in industrial hazard risk assessment, CBRNe, wildfires and IT emergency planning fields for 40 years. He has been many times incident commander, from forest fires to industrial accidents, including mass medical emergencies. During his career, he served four years in the French national fire officers’ academy, Paris, where he is nowadays associate teacher of since 1990. He was also the director/founder of BDRFD fire school in 2000. He has been also French team leader, battling against wildfires in Sweden (2018) and Greece (2021).

After being EU expert evaluator for FP7 security calls from 2008 to 2016, he took part to several EU funded projects as end user and expert: Decotesc1, Acrimas, Eden, Cato, Darius, Archimedes, Fire-res, Firelogue… He’s been involved in robotic tools innovation development groups for many years.

He’s now safety consultant and trainer for industries, think tanks, schools, and EU projects, on his favourite topics: industrial risks, crisis management, civil protection, wildfires and European civil protection interoperability.

His publications and conferences in the pre-cited domains are witnessing of his willingness to implement efficiently R&D and innovation for civil protection stakeholders, and to share safety knowledge worldwide.