Biography|Marc Houalla — The Toulouse Decree That Put an Alumnus Over ENAC

People treat the ENAC director's office as a post that always went to someone from outside the school.

On 27 November 2008 a presidential decree named Marc Houalla, ingénieur en chef des ponts et chaussées, director of the École nationale de l'aviation civile.

He replaced Gérard Rozenknop.

The next day, 28 November 2008, he signed his first published délégation de signature from Toulouse.

The heading on that decision is the campus address: the school at 7 avenue Édouard Belin.

From November 2008 until January 2011 he combined the ENAC post with the SEFA command he had held since December 2006, until the training service was merged into the school.

He was forty-seven.

He was also an alumnus of the house he now directed.

Olivier Chansou would succeed him on 27 November 2017, nine years to the day after the decree.

The gate in the photograph, shot in March 2007, is the public face of that campus a year before the appointment.

The school is not a corporate headquarters.

It is the French state's civil-aviation university, and the director's first published act on the ground is a signature page, not a ribbon.

From this office he later left for Groupe ADP.

Photo: YtoSu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (March 2007)