Gérard Degoutte is an engineer in the Corps des ponts, des eaux et des forêts (France's Bridges, Waters and Forests Corps) and member of the French Standing Technical Committee for Dams and Hydraulic Works. Rémy Tourment is a civil engineer, chairman of the Technical Committee on Levees within the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) and vice-president of the Comité français des barrages et réservoirs (National Dams Committee associated with ICOLD).
They have both dedicated their careers at INRAE to research, teaching, expertise and auditing activities in the field of hydraulic structures, dams and levees, and river morphology.