ENSTA Foundation: Mohamed Mehaddi Named New Member of the Management Committee

What has your career path been like?

After completing my preparatory classes at the Lycée Gay-Lussac in Limoges, I enrolled at ENSIETA (École nationale supérieure des études et techniques d’armement) in 1988 and graduated in 1992, with a year of military service on the missile frigate Duquesne in between. ENSIETA became ENSTA Bretagne in December 2010 and is therefore one of the founding institutions of the new ENSTA, created in January 2025 through a merger with ENSTA Paris.

After graduating, I spent most of my career at the DGA (General Directorate of Armaments), beginning with a technical phase during which I successively held the positions of test engineer, director of pyrotechnic testing, and then manager of shipboard nuclear boiler maintenance within the Directorate of Naval Construction (DCN).

Following this highly operational initial phase, beginning in 2003, I held managerial positions in the human resources department, during the period when the DCN was transformed, through a series of reorganizations, into Naval Group. Through this experience, I gained expertise and a keen awareness of issues related to gender pay equity, psychosocial risks, and diversity and inclusion—knowledge I now hope to share with the Foundation.

What does the ENSTA Foundation mean to you?

First and foremost, it represents values that I also hold dear—values upon which I have built my career.