Biographie d'Alain Beltran
The Editor : Alain Beltran is a research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research in a unit common to the Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris-Sorbonne Universities. He has specialized in history of energy and of raw materials, of major companies, of innovation, and of public research. He has also published works on Electricité de France, Suez et Gaz de France, Elf-Aquitaine, SNCF, Veolia, etc.
With Total Company's help, he arranges colloquia dealing with the history of oil (the third one will be in 2010) and coordinates work on the history of hydrocarbons in France and in the countries formerly under French influence.