Cofrend's Annual General Meeting was held on September 24 to elect a new Chairman and new Board members.
Mr. Etienne Martin, "END Expert" at EDF, has been elected Chairman of Cofrend for a three-year term. He succeeds outgoing chairman François Champigny.
Involved for over 30 years in monitoring the development and qualification of non-destructive testing (NDT) procedures, Etienne Martin is no stranger to the sector and to Cofrend. Vice-Chairman from 2002 to 2005, then Chairman of Cofrend from 2005 to 2008, he has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2011, in charge of international affairs, renamed since 2016 to the Cofrend international pole, which he chairs. He has been a member of the EFNDT Board of Directors since 2012, and was appointed EFNDT Treasurer in 2020.
Highly involved in international qualification and standardization bodies, Etienne Martin was Chairman of the European Network for Inspection & Qualification (ENIQ), in charge of drafting best practice guides for NDT qualification, from 2011 to 2017. Since 1er In September 2020, he will take over the chairmanship of CEN / TC 138. He also represents the NDT profession on risk management in the use of high-energy radiography, in liaison with safety authorities.
Etienne Martin returns to the presidency of Cofrend in a very special context, marked by the coronavirus health crisis.
In these turbulent times, he intends to bring all his experience to bear to support the profession in this new context of crisis and wishes to reaffirm more than ever what unites the profession and its members within the confederation:
– une communauté de métiers, reposant sur des experts et des référents techniques,
– une expression plurielle de ses activités, qui est le principe même d’une confédération,
– la reconnaissance d’un noyau unique, essentiel : la certification, reconnue pour sa qualité,
- the investment made by the association's members, who devote a significant proportion of their time to Cofrend's operations, and who deserve our utmost respect,
– une équipe de gouvernance forte et motivée pour que la confédération française pour les END demeure une association reposant sur des principes simples de partage, d’échanges, d’autonomie, et de communication dans laquelle tous les membres doivent se sentir impliqués et reconnus.
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