Richard TOUROUDE, born 1955, graduated in Tours in 1980 (LL.M, international commercial law) before joining SERI RENAULT ENGINEERING (RENAULT Group) as Legal Advisor, then Head of the Legal Department. In 1987 he worked for SOGELERG (now ARTELIA) as Head of the Legal and Export Finance Department, and for the French consortium INTERINFRA (in charge of metro projects worldwide). In 1989 he was heading the Legal Department of LEHRER, MCGOVERN BOVIS (in charge of the project management for Eurodisney) where he organised the procurement, and in 1990 he was promoted General Counsel of BOVIS S.A. and BOVIS INTERNATIONAL S.A. In 1991 he joined COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE DE BÂTIMENT ET DE CONSTRUCTION (CBC) as Head of the International Legal Department. In 1997 he was transferred to CAMPENON BERNARD SGE (now VINCI CONSTRUCTION GRANDS PROJETS) as International Legal Director. In 2005 he was promoted General Counsel. As such, he was the Chief Negotiator for the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement contract, on behalf of the Novarka consortium (VINCI-Bouygues). In 2009 he was seconded to COMPAGNIE D’ENTREPRISES CFE (a VINCI subsidiary, listed at Euronext Brussels) as International Legal Director. He was a lecturer at the University of Tours, Advanced LL.M Programme in Foreign Trade Law of the Law Faculty, from 1984 to 2017. In May 2018 he became Director of International Affairs of the French FÉDÉRATION NATIONALE DES TRAVAUX PUBLICS (FNTP) and CEO of the SYNDICAT DES ENTREPRENEURS FRANÇAIS INTERNATIONAUX (SEFI). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of MEDEF INTERNATIONAL, vice-chair of the Development Committee of the BIAC (Business at OECD) and chairman of the Collège des Acteurs Economiques of the CONSEIL NATIONAL DU DÉVELOPPEMENT ET DE LA SOLIDARITÉ INTERNATIONALE (CNDSI).