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Pierre Beuzit (born 1942) is a French engineer, and was responsible for the design of theRenault Clio in the 1990s.
He gained a degree in Physics in 1966 at theÉcole centrale de Lyon, followed by aMasters degree (Diplôme d'études approfondies or DEA) in 1967, and aDocteur d'État (PhD) in Nuclear Physics in 1971 from theFrench Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives or CEA).
He joined Renault in 1971 as an engineer. In 1972 he joined the Vehicle Synthesis Department. From 1984-92 he was Director of Advanced Projects (Directeur des Avant-projets).
In the 1990s he was responsible (Directeur gamme Clio) for the overall design of the Clio II (B Product Range), which was launched in 1998.[1] The Clio II design lasted until 2012.
From 1998-2005 he was Director of Research (Directeur de la Recherche) at Renault. Although Renault is headquartered atBoulogne-Billancourt inHauts-de-Seine in the west of Paris, the design is carried out at theCentre Technique Renault de Rueil (Rueil Technical Centre, or CTR), also in Hauts-de-Seine.
In September 2006 he retired from Renault.
He is currently researchinghydrogen as a fuel for automobiles at the Centre National de Recherche Technologique (CNRT), which researchesfuel cells (Systèmes Pile à combustible), and is overseen by theMinistère de la Recherche.
He is married with two children.
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| Preceded by Jean-Jacques Payan | Director of Research at Renault September 1998 - September 2005 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Project Manager of the Renault Clio 1992 - 1998 | Succeeded by |
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