Christophe Levy

Christophe Levy is Scientific Director at the LafargeHolcim Innovation Center near Lyon, France and was a member of the LafargeHolcim Awards jury for North America in 2020.

About

Christophe Levy is Scientific Director and Director R&D Concrete & Aggregates at the LafargeHolcim Innovation Center near Lyon, France.

He has over 30 years of experience in construction materials, including 20 in research and development. He began his career in road construction as part of his national service for the French Ministry of Cooperation in the Central African Republic (1984-85). He worked for major French contractor Bouygues (1985-87) on a number of high-profile projects including the Arche de la Défense, Paris.

Christophe Levy commenced at LafargeHolcim in 1988 with various roles in marketing and sales, laboratory management, project management, production, and research and development. He was appointed Research & Development Director for Concrete and Aggregates at the Lafarge Research Center (2001-08); Vice-President in Marketing at Lafarge Ready-Mix based in Chennai, India (2008-09); Lafarge Sustainable Construction Director (2009-13); R&D Director Construction Solutions (2013-17); and Head of Marketing & Innovation, LafargeHolcim USA (2017-18) before appointment to his current position in December 2018.

He studied Civil Engineering at Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics in Paris (1984).

His research has been published in several international publications, he has more than 20 published patents to his credit and is co-inventor of a number of the current value-added cements, concretes and building systems of LafargeHolcim.

Christophe Levy was a member of the LafargeHolcim Awards jury for North America in 2020.

He participated in the first Roundtable to prepare the topics of the LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction in 2020.