Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests

Description

The Corps des Ingénieurs des Ponts, des Eaux et des Forêts is a technical Grand Corps of the French State. Its members, called ingénieurs des ponts, des eaux et des forêts, are senior civil servants and top-level engineers, mainly employed by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and by the French Ministry of Agriculture, but they can also work for every French Ministries, public establishments, or public compagnies. Thanks to its history and its selective recruitment policy, the Corps des IPEF enjoys considerable prestige within France's senior civil services, as the Corps des mines and the Corps de l'armement.