Philippe GUILLAUMETInternational and European Projects Manager - Port de Marseille-Fos Authority

The port of Marseille-Fos authority is the first French port and one of the major ports in Med and in Europe. It is a multipurpose port, handling 80 millions tons in 2019on a total surface of 10 000hectares.

Doctor in Economic Sciences, Philippe Guillaumet has been hired by the Grand Port Maritime of Marseille in 2004, as responsible for the port investments in the strategy and finance direction. After this first experience, he was nominated at different functions always in relation with the building and the implementation of the Marseille-Fos Port strategy.

As responsible of the European affairs, he has highly contributed to put Marseille on the European map and as a leader port in Med. In this framework, he spent long years to convince the ports around the  MED to constitute a new cooperation network. Finally, in 2018 the MEDports association was created and count nowadays 24 ports representing 70% of the total cargo in MED. P. Guillaumet was elected general secretary of this association and he is occupying this function nowadays.

For the port of Marseille-Fos, as economic intelligence and European and international projects manager, Philippe Guillaumet steers the main promotional actions of the port of Marseille on the international scene.

In 2020, he has participated in the origin of the creation of a university chair ‘environment and international trade” with the SciencesPo Aix, one of the main Political Studies Institute and keep on teaching various courses in different masters in France.