Jean-François Guet, a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, is the French government’s chief architect and planning officer. His career has been spent within the French Ministry of Ecology (formerly Ministry of Infrastructure). In particular, he was director of the ministry’s Urban Development & Housing Department, before being appointed as the Research Director’s Delegate at CERTU (Centre for the Study of Urban Planning, Transport and Public Facilities).