Éric René Boullier is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 motor racing engineer and manager, currently the team principal of the Lotus Renault GP Formula One

Formula One

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

 team and vice chairman of FOTA

Formula One Teams Association

The Formula One Teams Association is a group of Formula One teams that was formed at a meeting in Maranello on 29 July 2008. This organisation gives the teams a united voice in their ongoing discussions with the FIA and The Formula One Group regarding the future of Formula One. It is headed by...

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Career

Boullier is a graduate of the French Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Appliquees (which became the Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées

Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées

IPSA, Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées, is a French private grande école in aeronautical and space engineering located at Ivry-sur-Seine and Toulouse, certified by the State since 2010 and by Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur since 2011....

 in 2001) engineering school where he studied aeronautical and space craft engineering. In 2002 he took up the position of chief engineer with the Spanish Racing Engineering

Racing Engineering

Racing Engineering is a Spanish racing team founded in 1999 by Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón. The team's headquarters are located in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, near Jerez, in a state-of-the-art factory, where all car preparation and race team organization is based....

 team, in charge of its World Series by Nissan programme.

At the beginning of 2003, he moved to the French DAMS

DAMS

Driot-Arnoux Motorsport is a racing team from France, involved in many areas of motorsports. DAMS was founded in 1988 by Jean-Paul Driot and former Formula One driver René Arnoux. It is headquartered near Le Mans, only 2 km from the Bugatti Circuit.- History :The year after its foundation,...

 team to be its managing and technical director, overseeing the team's activities in numerous categories, including the A1 Team France

A1 Team France

A1 Team France is the French team of A1 Grand Prix, an international racing series. The team were the A1 Grand Prix champions for the inaugural season, 2005-06.- Management :A1 Team France's owner is Jean-Paul Driot...

 operation.

At the end of 2008, Boullier became the CEO of Gravity Sport Management, where he was in charge of many young drivers including Ho-Pin Tung

Ho-Pin Tung

Ho-Pin Tung is a Chinese-Dutch auto-racing driver who races with a Chinese license.-Career:Tung started kart racing in the Netherlands in 1997 before graduating to single-seaters. He won the 2003 Formula BMW Asia series and was rewarded with a test drive with the Williams F1 team.In 2004 he joined...

, Adrien Tambay

Adrien Tambay

Adrien Tambay is a French auto racing driver. He is the son of former Formula One driver Patrick Tambay, who won two Grands Prix for Ferrari in the early 1980s.-Formula BMW:...

, Jerome D'Ambrosio

Jérôme d'Ambrosio

Jérôme d'Ambrosio is a Belgian racing driver of Italian descent. He is driving for Marussia Virgin Racing during the 2011 Formula One World Championship.-Karting:...

 and Christian Vietoris

Christian Vietoris

Christian Vietoris is a German racing driver.-Karting:Vietoris started his career through karting, the most common entry point and all racing drivers, in 1994...

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After the season, the Renault F1

Renault F1

Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking...

 team was bought-into by investment company Genii Capital

Genii Capital

Genii Capital is an international financial advisory and investment firm, which specialises in brand management, promising technologies, motorsport and a wide spectrum of venture capitalism activities. It was created in 2008, by two Luxembourger investors, Gerard Lopez and Eric Lux and has a...

. One of Genii's leading figures is Gerard Lopez

Gerard Lopez (businessman)

Gerard Lopez is a Spanish entrepreneur and businessman based in Luxembourg. Alongside Eric Lux, he is a founding partner of The Genii Group. He is the Chairman of the Lotus Renault Formula One team and of its majority owner, Genii Capital...

, who is a major backer of Gravity Sport. Renault required a new team principal following the departure of Flavio Briatore

Flavio Briatore

Flavio Briatore is an Italian businessman. During the 1980s, he was convicted for multiple counts of fraud, receiving two prison sentences, only one of which he served. As a fugitive from Italy, he set up restaurants and then a number of successful Benneton franchises in the Virgin Islands and the...

. On January 5 2010, Boullier was announced as the new team principal, despite never having worked in Formula One before. As of 2011, he is team principal of Lotus Renault GP and vice charman of FOTA

Formula One Teams Association

The Formula One Teams Association is a group of Formula One teams that was formed at a meeting in Maranello on 29 July 2008. This organisation gives the teams a united voice in their ongoing discussions with the FIA and The Formula One Group regarding the future of Formula One. It is headed by...

. Under Boullier's leadership, the Renault team finished fifth in the World Constructors' Championship in , and are also currently fifth in .