Prost will head Renault powertrain engineering.(People)(Jacques Prost appointed as head at Regie Nationale des Usines Renault)(Brief article)

Saint-Seine, Sylviane de

Byline: Sylviane de Saint-Seine

Jacques Prost will become head of Renault's Paris-based powertrain engineering division January 1.

Currently, Prost, 53, is vice president for Renault's small cars program.

Prost was project manager for the third-generation Clio small-segment car.

Prost succeeds Kazumasa Katoh, who has headed the French carmaker's powertrain engineering unit since 2001.

Katoh, a longtime Nissan executive, returns to Japan to take an unspecified post with Nissan.

He was appointed to his current post as part of a policy by Renault and Nissan to swap ...