Vincent Ducrot

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Vincent Ducrot
Vincent Ducrot

Vincent Ducrot , (born September 7, 1962 in Châtel-Saint-Denis ) is a Swiss manager. The engineer, who was trained as an electrical engineer and specialized in IT , was General Director of the Freiburg Transport Authority (TPF) from 2011 to 2020 . On December 9, 2019, he was nominated as CEO of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). He took over the position on April 1, 2020. Ducrot had previously worked in project management at SBB from 1993 to 2011 .

Career

Ducrot was born as the eldest son of three children in Châtel-Saint-Denis in the canton of Friborg in 1962 . He attended high school in Bulle , where he graduated in Latin and languages.

After graduating from high school, Ducrot obtained a diploma as electrical engineer (focus on computer science) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 1987 . He also completed a postgraduate diploma in technical business administration at the Business Administration Institute (BWI) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , as well as a certification in portfolio management (Certified Portfolio Director IPMA Level A). He also completed the OWP ( Orchestrating Winning Performance ) training program at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne .

Ducrot started his professional life in 1986, as a computer scientist in various positions in Switzerland and abroad ( Europe and the United States ).

With the Swiss Federal Railways

In 1993, Ducrot started in the rail transport division as head of the software development unit at the Swiss Federal Railways. From 1997 to 2002 he was SBB delegate at Expo.02 .

From 1999 to 2010, as head of the long-distance transport division, he was responsible for developing and implementing the transport strategy for long-haul routes in the Swiss rail network. This included, in particular, the introduction of the first stage of Bahn 2000 , which went into operation in December 2004, as well as the project for the new Alpine railway and the new Lötschberg mountain line , the 34.6 kilometer long base tunnel of which was opened in June 2007.

At the international level, he worked on the creation of Lyria , which ensures the TGV connection between France and Switzerland.

Ducrot also created the SBB transport concept for Switzerland for the 2008 European Football Championship .

From 2009 to 2010 he also took on the role of interim head of the passenger transport department.

Freiburg transport company

At the beginning of July 2011 Ducrot was appointed General Director of the Freiburg Transport Authority. He converted the TPF into a holding company . Under his leadership, the number of travelers rose from 25.7 million people in 2011 to 32.5 million in 2018. The number of TPF employees rose from 700 to around 1200 people.

Modernization of the infrastructure

Under his management, several newly expanded train stations were put into operation, for example in Bossonnens , Belfaux , Pensier , Münchenwiler-Courgevaux, Montbovon and in Châtel-Saint-Denis, whose train station together with the municipality of Châtel-Saint-Denis and the cantonal spatial planning department -, Environment and Construction Directorate was expanded.

In addition, from 2014 to 2019 five train station areas were designed as “new living spaces”; B. in Bulle and Châtel-St-Denis. The new maintenance and operations center of TPF Givisiez , which he initiated, opened at the beginning of 2019 .

Its balance sheet also includes technological innovations, such as participating in the launch of the Fairtiq app, which is offered by 21 transport companies in Switzerland, and the SMS ticket (app for buying bus tickets by SMS ). In 2017, TPF opened the first autonomous shuttle bus line with Navya vehicles in Marly, on which the buses should run electrically and without drivers.

Swiss Federal Railways

On December 10, 2019, the SBB Board of Directors announced the nomination of Ducrot as CEO, taking office on April 1, 2020. He will succeed Andreas Meyer , who has headed the company since 2007 and who will step down in September 2019 announced. At the beginning of his career at the helm of SBB, Vincent Ducrot faces the unexpected and great challenge of coping with the decline in Swiss rail traffic caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and at the same time being entitled to resume the normal train schedule at an as yet unknown point in time bring.

Publications

Information engineering in practice: concepts and strategies for in-house software development , Walter Brenner (éditeur), Christoph Binkert (éditeur), Michael Lehmann-Kahler (éditeur), Campus Verlag, Vincent Ducrot co-auteur.

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Un alumni EPFL deviendra patron of the CFF. In: Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Revue de presse. École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne , December 11, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ Bernard Léchot: expo.02: branle-bas de combat aux CFF! (fr) . In: Swissinfo.ch , July 3, 2001. Accessed February 9, 2020. 
  5. ↑ Bernard Léchot: expo.02: le train, "le moyen de transport le plus naturel" (french) . In: swissinfo , July 3, 2001. Retrieved February 16, 2020. 
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  10. ^ Frédéric Sardet, translation: Alice Holenstein-Beereuter: Lausanne - community. Chapter 3.2.3. Economy and Transport in the 19th and 20th Centuries. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 2, 2009, accessed February 2, 2020 .
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  13. ↑ Another departure from SBB. In: www.nzz.ch. November 18, 2010, accessed February 4, 2020 .
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  16. ↑ Les TPF changent pour l'avenir affronter. La Liberté, May 16, 2014, accessed February 16, 2020 (French).
  17. ↑ The 2018 financial year of the Freiburg Transport Authority carried more than 32 million passengers. Freiburgische Verkehrsbetriebe, May 1, 2019, accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Les TPF ont transporté plus de 29 millions de voyageurs en 2015. La Liberté, April 18, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2020 (French).
  19. ↑ The new TPF train stations appear light and transparent and are self-sufficient. Freiburger Nachrichten , August 31, 2013, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
  20. ↑ A major construction site for 60 million francs. August 30, 2017, accessed February 2, 2020 .
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  22. ↑ Michel Rey: La stratégie immobilière des Transports publics fribourgeois. La Méduse, August 11, 2018, accessed February 15, 2020 (French).
  23. ↑ Friborg inaugure le nouvel écrin qui accueille ses transports publics. In: www.rts.ch. September 20, 2019, accessed on February 14, 2020 (French).
  24. ↑ Freiburger Verkehrsbetriebe: Billet purchase done by itself. SRF , April 4, 2016 Retrieved on January 31, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Marcel Urech: An autonomous bus will soon be turning around in the canton of Friborg. Freiburger Nachrichten , March 24, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
  26. ↑ The Board of Directors elects the Chief Executive Officer: Vincent Ducrot becomes the new SBB CEO. SBB , December 10, 2019, accessed on February 1, 2020 .
  27. ↑ New SBB boss: Statement from DETEC.admin.ch. Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications , December 10, 2019, accessed on February 1, 2020 .
  28. ↑ The Council of State congratulates Vincent Ducrot on his appointment to the head of SBB. December 10, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2020 (German).
  29. ↑ Daniel Friedli: After the delays, now construction sites as far as the trains can go: In 2020, the SBB will be at the limit. In: nzzas.nzz.ch. December 14, 2019, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  30. ↑ Now it's official: Vincent Ducrot replaces Andreas Meyer as SBB boss. Who is the man? In: www.handelszeitung.ch. December 10, 2019, accessed February 4, 2020 .
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  32. ↑ Mirjam Spreiter: New SBB boss - Vincent Ducrot: “It's a Herculean task”. www.srf.ch, April 1, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2020 .
  33. ↑ Helmut Stalder: The SBB are already planning to restart. www.nzz.ch, April 1, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2020 .
  34. ↑ Vincent Ducrot et al .: Information Engineering in Practice. Concepts and strategies for in-house software development . Ed .: Walter Brenner, Christoph Binkert, Michael Lehmann-Kahler. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. Main 1996, ISBN 3-593-35595-7 , Part III: Successful software projects in practice, 6. The "Rolling Stock Database" project (ROMA): Increasing the productivity of application development, p. 129-148 ( google.ch ).
personal data
SURNAME Ducrot, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Châtel-Saint-Denis