Philippe Duhamel
Executive Vice-President, Defence Mission Systems
Philippe Duhamel joined Thales in 1987. He has been Executive Vice-President, Defence Mission Systems since 2017.
Philippe Duhamel is a graduate of the engineering school at the Institut National Polytechnique in Grenoble. He is member of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale. He is a knight of the French Legion of Honour and holder of the French Aeronautics Medal.
He joined Thales in 1987. From 2001 to 2003, he was Director of Bids and Proposals for Thales’ Air Traffic Control business.
In 2003, he was appointed Director of Programmes for Thales’ naval radars and ground-based air defence systems business in the Netherlands. In 2007, he became Vice-President, Ground-Based Radars, for the Surface Radar business line.
In 2010, he became Chief Executive Officer of ThalesRaytheonSystems France, the French entity specialising in air defence systems for armed forces worldwide. In 2013, he was named Chief Executive Officer of ThalesRaytheonSystems.
From June 2016, Philippe served as Senior Vice-President, for Operations and Operational Functions for the Thales Group Operations and Performance Department.