Editing CNES (section)

==Governance structure==
The CNES is headed by a president or [[CEO]], a [[Chief operating officer|COO]] and a deputy CEO. The following is a list of presidents of CNES from its inception to the current day.
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* 1961 - 1962 [[Pierre Victor Auger|Pierre Auger]]
* 1962 - 1967 [[Jean Coulomb]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Coulomb (1904-1999) |url=https://www.annales.org/archives/cofrhigeo/coulomb.html |website=www.annales.org}}</ref>
* 1967 - 1973 [[Jean-François Denisse]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Casoli |first=Fabienne |title=Jean-François Denisse, président du CNES |url=https://www.observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/IMG/pdf/casoli.pdf}}</ref>
* 1973 - 1976 [[Maurice Lévy (physicist)|Maurice Lévy]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maurice Lévy, physicien et universitaire |url=https://maurice-levy-physicien.fr/ |website=maurice-levy-physicien.fr}}</ref>
* 1976 - 1984 [[Hubert Curien]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Authier |first=André |date=2005-06-01 |title=Hubert Curien (1924–2005) |url=https://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0021889805010861 |journal=Journal of Applied Crystallography |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=578 |doi=10.1107/S0021889805010861 |issn=0021-8898}}</ref>
* 1984 - 1992 [[Jacques-Louis Lions]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ciarlet |first=Philippe G. |date=2002 |title=Jacques-Louis Lions 2 May 1928--17 May 2001 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3650260 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=48 |pages=275–287 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2002.0015 |jstor=3650260 |issn=0080-4606|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* 1992 - 1995 [[René Pellat]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bonnet |first1=Roger-Maurice |last2=Laval |first2=Guy |last3=Luciani |first3=Jean-François |date=2004-07-01 |title=René Pellat |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/57/7/77/917926/Rene-Pellat |journal=Physics Today |language=en |volume=57 |issue=7 |pages=77–78 |doi=10.1063/1.1784316 |issn=0031-9228}}</ref>
* 1995 - 1996 [[André Lebeau]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Selding |first=Peter B. de |date=2013-02-28 |title=Controversial Former CNES Chief Lebeau Dies |url=https://spacenews.com/33901controversial-former-cnes-chief-lebeau-dies/ |website=SpaceNews |language=en-US}}</ref>
* 1996 - 2003 [[Alain Bensoussan]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Buckdahn |first1=Rainer |last2=Li |first2=Juan |last3=Peng |first3=Shige |date=2022 |title=Special issue dedicated to Alain Bensoussan on the occasion of his 80th birthday: Preface |url=https://www.aimsciences.org/article/doi/10.3934/puqr.2022010 |journal=Probability, Uncertainty and Quantitative Risk |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=i |doi=10.3934/puqr.2022010 |issn=2095-9672|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* 2003 - 2013 Yannick d'Escatha<ref>{{Cite web |title=La biographie de Yannick D'ESCATHA, Ancien président du Cnes - L'Etudiant - Educpros |url=https://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/personnalites/d-escatha-yannick-157.html |website=www.letudiant.fr}}</ref>
* 2013 - 2021 [[Jean-Yves Le Gall]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Federation |first=International Astronautical |title=IAF : Jean-Yves LE GALL |url=https://www.iafastro.org/biographie/jean-yves-le-gall.html |website=www.iafastro.org |language=en}}</ref>
* 2021 - now [[Philippe Baptiste]]
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