Antoine Bouvier
Antoine was a delegate from 1995 with the Union Française des Géologues (UFG), the French National Association member of EFG that he also was president of for some years, and he is still a French delegate. He became a European Geologist early in 1997 and joined the Board of the EFG as Secretary General in 1999 and served until 2002. He took the new post of a dedicated Secretary General with enthusiasm.
After leaving the Board he took on the chair of the International Licensed Body (ILB), a post he still has today. Antoine is still translating the English abstracts to French ones for the European Geologist magazine. For 16 years Antoine has been serving the EFG in different ways in spite of being involved since 2004 in fresh water research in the Comores, Mali, Niger, Togo and Haiti and also in mining projects in China and Kosovo, as a geological/geophysical expert, and it is largely thanks to Antoine that UFG came back as a member of EFG.
Since Antoine is also a man of several languages (French, English, Spanish, Arabic), and since he is a very social and humble person, so easy to get on with, Antoine Bouvier is really worthy the EFG Medal of Merit.
After leaving the Board he took on the chair of the International Licensed Body (ILB), a post he still has today. Antoine is still translating the English abstracts to French ones for the European Geologist magazine. For 16 years Antoine has been serving the EFG in different ways in spite of being involved since 2004 in fresh water research in the Comores, Mali, Niger, Togo and Haiti and also in mining projects in China and Kosovo, as a geological/geophysical expert, and it is largely thanks to Antoine that UFG came back as a member of EFG.
Since Antoine is also a man of several languages (French, English, Spanish, Arabic), and since he is a very social and humble person, so easy to get on with, Antoine Bouvier is really worthy the EFG Medal of Merit.
Proposed: Christer Åkerman
Seconded: the Past Presidents
