Regional natural parks NRP are not a discovery for him

Of Landes de Gascogne in the Ballons des Vosges, and the gorges of the Verdon to the marshes of Cotentin, "missionary fibre" Marc Gastambide is able to fully express themselves. A sixty-two years, the son of a pastor, fed with the milk of the Datar, took the leadership of the Federation of regional nature parks of France. In local dingy and a bit cramped in the Paris headquarters of the Organization, in the heart of the densely populated neighbourhood of Barbès, only a few posters are there to remind us of the thousand and one treasures contain these 45 parks labelled covering 70,000 square kilometres, or 13 of the national territory. But Marc Gastambide enough surveyed the "sweet France" in order to travel by the memory or imagination...

Regional natural parks (NRP) are not a discovery for him. This great amateur of walks one of its rare menus pleasures with baroque music even helped connect some of them when he was the "missi dominici" of the Datar in the Massif central, the second half of the 1990s. Created in 2000 on its own initiative, the association Ipamac (Inter-Parcs of the central Massif), that he would have liked with humour (but not succeed) baptized "Central Park", brings together ten PNR in the region, the Morvan in Haut-Languedoc. This passage at Clermont-Ferrand, where he became Commissioner of planning and economic development and functions of Commissioner in the industrialization of the Massif central, remains one of the highlights of his professional life.

He left invaded by his work

Among other records that he had to handle, include, in addition to the Ipamac, the implementation of the "Mecanic Valley", which stretches from Rodez to Brive-la-Gaillarde via Figeac. Or even the preparation of the interdepartmental planning Committee and the development of the territory (Ciadt) is held end of 2001 in Limoges on the theme of the technologies of information and communication, including the thorny problem of the white areas of mobile telephony.

Former technical advisor to the cabinet of Gaston Flosse to the Secretariat of State in the South Pacific, Marc Gastambide had completed his apprenticeship in the workings of the power helping the development of Bill Pasqua on spatial planning and the development of the territory in 1994. In 2001, it will deepen its knowledge of the world of the consular Chambers by becoming Deputy Director General at the Assembly of French Chambers of commerce and industry (ACFCI). A function is two and a half years before returning the Datar, as Advisor in charge of European issues of first the opportunity this time to put one foot in the world of the European structural funds then team dynamics of territories.

Married to a handwriting expert converted in assistance to the creation of company and father of two major boys who pride one is a doctor in economics, the other in political science , Marc Gastambide confesses that he is always left to invade by his work. In thirty-five year career in the service of the "country" and their inhabitants, its functions does him little left the time to take the key of the fields. The fills for someone whose name means Basque, "the path of hazelnuts.