Biography

Eric Duporte has been the head of the Business Development Department at the SHOM institute since 2015. He has been at SHOM since 1992, where he was responsible for the organisation of oceanographic cruises for 10 years, then became involved in the technical supervision of the building of the French oceanographic ship <i>Pourquoi pas?<i>. Prior to his present position, he was director of technical services at SHOM, including scientific equipment, logistics and information systems.