Lionel GAIFFE is currently the Senior Executive Vice President, Fuel Business Unit & Operational Excellence for Framatome. He is responsible for the worldwide operation and business for Framatome in the domain of Nuclear Fuel (11 sites and manufacturing facilities,
customers are major Utilities worldwide); as well as responsible for the Operational Excellence program of Framatome (Lean Management).

Lionel Gaiffe began his career in France in 1991 within the ASSYSTEM group. In 1993 he joined the MELOX plant as head of new projects, testing and commissioning. He moved to Cogema in 1996 as US MOX project manager before joining the AREVA group in 2002 as head of innovation policy. He was a board member of different research consortia and start- up funds. In 2004 he joined the AREVA NC site in La Hague (now Orano – worldwide largest commercial reprocessing site, with 20 main nuclear installations and 5000 employees),
where he was first Maintenance Director, after which he became the site’s Industrial Director for five years. He was member of the La Hague Management Committee, and since 2011 he has been heading the Technical Department, which he created. In October 2014, he took over responsibility for the AREVA NP fuel production plants and also became a member of the Executive Committee of the Mining & Front-end Business Group. On 1 July 2016, he was appointed Senior Executive Vice President of the Fuel Business Unit at Framatome and member of the Framatome Executive Committee.

Lionel Gaiffe is a French national, born in 1968. He is a graduate of the Ecole National Supérieure des Arts & Métiers (Paris, 1990). He obtained a degree from European School of Management (ESCP – Berlin in 2005 / Corporate Leadership Program).