Governance
Board of Directors
The CNRS Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors, which defines general policy, sets strategic orientations, votes on budgets and approves accounts. The Board is made up of the CNRS Chairman and CEO, the CNRS Director General for Science, two staff representatives and three other founders, as well as five qualified personalities. This composition provides a view of the scientific priorities of the founding organization, as well as representatives of the business world and civil society.
Founders’ College :
CNRS representatives
Antoine Petit
Chairman and CEO of CNRS - Chairman of the Foundation
Alain Schuhl
CNRS Deputy Director General for Science
Other founders
Jean-Marie Tarascon
CNRS Gold Medal 2022
Françoise Combes
CNRS Gold Medal 2020
Jean Dalibard
CNRS Gold Medal 2021
CNRS staff representatives
Boris Gralak
Research director at CNRS
Pierre-Yves Saillant
Research engineer at CNRS
Qualified personalities
Ilham Kadri
CEO of Syensqo
Isabelle Kocher de Leyritz
President and CEO of Blunomy
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Honorary professor at IHES and qualified personality
Louis Schweitzer
Honorary President of Renault
Philippe Etienne
Former French Ambassador to the United States
Permanent guest
Laurent Beauvais
Former president of the Lower Normandy Region
Financial Committee
The Financial Committee assists the Board of Directors in the financial management of the Foundation.
The Financial Committee is made up of 6 members including 3 personalities designated because of their expertise in the field concerned. It proposes to the Board of Directors an investment policy for the assets available to the Foundation and monitors it.
Composition of the financial committee
- Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Treasurer of the CNRS Foundation
- Michel Mortier, Director General of the CNRS Foundation
- Damien Renaud
- Françoise Rochette
- Brigitte Roux, Deputy Director General of the CNRS Foundation
- Pierre Saboureault