Bruno Rebelle

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French politician, veterinarian, former number two of the organization Greenpeace International . He was elected President of the association Planète Urgence 19 April 2012. He received his veterinary degree at the National Veterinary School in Lyon in 1981 and opened his first veterinary clinic on the Vercors plateau in 1984. Bruno Rebelle involved in the creation of an NGO, Veterinarians Without Borders, where he became director in 1991. He left the organization in June 1996 , the date from which he worked as a private consultant to various international organizations (EU, IFAD, WWF International, CARE ...). In November 1997 , he became executive director of Greenpeace France, during which the French NGO from 18 000 to 65 000 members. The team employed also increased from 7 to 47 permanent. The organization expands the scope of its relationships and has gradually become a partner other NGOs to protect the environment and as a recognized partner of public authorities, political parties and businesses. Legal representative of Greenpeace France, he has led many struggles in justice, in particular to recognize the illegality of storage in France of foreign nuclear waste or to cancel the State Council authorization of cultivation of transgenic maize . End of 2003 , he is personally condemned by the court of Albertville to a term of general interest to be in October 2001 in Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne was responsible interassociative a demonstration of protest that degenerated. During this event, which was organized against the invasion of alpine valleys by trucks and in favor of a reform of the transport policy, protesters had blocked the highwayMaurienne for several hours. Some excesses led to minor degradations of the fence bordering the highway.The sentence was lifted from the reimbursement of damages. In August 2003 , he was called to take the position of program director of Greenpeace International. Number 2 in the organization, he is responsible for the coordination of operations of the environmental organization in the world. It provides particularly good joint public activities with political lobbying, publication of scientific research and public engagement. It also ensures the coordination of specific transactions, including the campaign for the return to France of the aircraft carrier Clemenceau for dismantling in India or the arrest of the Probo Koala in Estonia after the ship had discharged toxic waste into the port of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire .He resigned in Greenpeace International in November 2006. In November 2012, he was appointed by the government to participate in the steering committee of the national debate on future energy transition. Link to French Wikipedia