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Francois Veillerette

Francois Veillerette

Spokesperson & Co-founder, Générations Futures

François Veillerette is spokesperson for the Générations Futures Association, also in charge of political and scientific issues. Then a teacher, he co-founded the association with agricultural engineer Georges Toutain in 1996. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the issue of pesticides and environmental health, including "Pesticides: revelations on a scandal French” co-written in 2007 with the journalist Fabrice Nicolino or in 2013 the book “Endocrine disruptors, the invisible threat” with the journalist Marine Jobert. At regional level he was vice-president in charge of environmental health from 2010 to 2016 in Picardy,  as well as President of the Greenpeace France association between 2003 and 2006 and co-founded the Health Environment Network. He was President of the European network Pesticide Action Network Europe for 10 years and is currently still administrator of this network.