Alain Ratier takes up his duties as EUMETSAT’s new Director-General
                          
                          Alain Ratier, 53, takes over as Director-General of EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, on 1 August 2011
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        29 July 2011
He succeeds Dr. Lars Prahm, who returns to the Danish Meteorological Institute as its Director-General, a post he already occupied before he became EUMETSAT’s Director-General.
M. Ratier was appointed by the EUMETSAT Council in December 2010 and comes to the organisation from Météo-France, where he has been Deputy Director-General since 2004.