Professional CV:Mr Jacques Manchard was graduate from the E.N.T.P.E. (French National Public Works School) in 1974. He then held several technical and management positions on road building and maintenance, office and data processing blocks construction, airport project management in France and in foreign countries.From 1997 to 2011, he has been in charge of the policy and management of the French marine aids to navigation. From 2007 to 2012, he was also the Maritime Safety Sub-director deputy, especially in charge of piloting topics relative to maritime radionavigation international systems (GPS, Galileo, Loran), the definition and implementation of a management control of the Sub-Directory, and e-Navigation. He has been the French representative at the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) Council from 1998 to 2011.Since September 2012, he is IALA Senior Adviser, working on capacity building for the IALA World-Wide Academy, and on coordination of the IALA cooperation policy with the development of marine aids to navigation systems in developing countries, with in particular the French-speaking countries. He has responsibility for Africa within the World-Wide Academy.He has been vice chairman of the North West European Loran C System (NELS), and director at the board of the International Loran Association.As member of the French Institute of Navigation (IFN) he has received the IFN medal for the year 2001. He is chairman of the European Maritime Radio Navigation Forum (EMRF).