Martha Heitzmann appointed Vice President of Research & Development

Martha Heitzmann已被任命副总统空气集团的研究与发展。她成功了Françoisjackow, who took over the management of Air Liquide Japan and Japan Air Gases.

Having held various environmental management positions with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, she has been, from 1999 to 2007, Principal Administrator, Performance and Environmental Information Division at the OECD. In this position at the OECD, Martha Heitzmann acquired an in-depth understanding of how industrialized countries are working to integrate sustainable development objectives into various sectors such as energy, industry, transport and agriculture.

Her experience gives Air Liquide Group a strategic vision of the trends of economic incentives and the regulations in these important markets.

Born in 1967, Martha Heitzmann holds a bachelor’s degree in Ecology and Natural Resource Management from the University of Arizona, masters and doctorate degrees in Environmental Engineering from Harvard and an MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs. She has dual French and American nationality.

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Air Liquide’s Research & Development

With850 employeesof25 different nationalities, in7 main R&D centers在欧洲，在美国和亚洲，研发被组织为一种发展高层专业知识。团队开发明天的产品和服务，重点关注三轴的创新轴：更健康的生活，沟通世界，可持续环境。

Through an ambitious Intellectual Property program, it files half of the Group’s patents each year.

它由120个工业伙伴关系和大学和研究中心的合作计划提供支持。