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Board of Directors and its committees

Last update: 06/12/2024 Reading time: 1min
Board of Directors

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is made up of 15 members divided into four colleges. The Board governs the affairs of the Institute through its deliberations. It decides on the strategic direction proposed by the Executive Director, votes on the budget and approves the Foundation’s accounts. 

College of founders and members of the board

  • President – Gérard Saillant, Honorary Professor of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery
  • Vice-President – Jean Todt, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety
  • Treasurer – Serge Weinberg, President of Weinberg Capital Partners
  • Jean Glavany, Former Minister
  • Jean-Pierre Martel, Attorney

College of qualified persons

  • Richard Frackowiak, Emeritus Professor at University College London
  • Philippe Ménasché, Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Élisabeth Tournier-Lasserve, Professor of Medical Genetics at Université Paris-Cité

College of full members

  • André Le Bivic, Director of the CNRS’s National Institute of Biological Sciences (INSB)
  • Didier Samuel, President and CEO of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm)
  • Bruno Riou, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Sorbonne University
  • Nicolas Revel, CEO of Paris Hospital Administration (AP-HP)

College of friends of the foundation

  • Martine Assouline, Co-founder Assouline Editions 
  • Maurice Lévy, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Publicis Groupe 
  • Christian Schmidt de La Brélie, CEO of Klesia

Governement commissioner

  • Jean-Marie Paulot
Board committees

Board committees

Scientific advisory board

Consisting of leading international neuroscience experts, the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) has the task of advising Paris Brain Institute and providing the necessary support in defining its overall strategy.  
Every five years, Paris Brain Institute, as a Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR), is assessed on the quality of its research, organization, strategy and scientific projects over the next five years. After exchanges and discussions, the International Scientific Council issues an opinion which is taken into account in the dossier submitted for evaluation by the Haut Conseil de l'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur (HCERES).

  • Président - Pr Dimitri Kullmann, Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, RoyaumeUni 
  • Pr Adrienne Fairhall, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Department of Physics and Department of Applied Mathematics, Washington University, USA 
  • Pr Tamas Gabor, University of Szeged, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hongrie 
  • Pr Magdalena Goetz, LMU Department of Physiological Genomics Helmholz Center Munich, Institute Stem Cell Research, Allemagne 
  • Pr Masud Husain, Wellcome Trust Principal Fellow - Nuffield Dept Clinical Neuroscience -University of Oxford, Royaume-Uni 
  • Pr Sabine Kastner, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, USA 
  • Pr Giovanna Malluci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Royaume-Uni 
  • Pr Eve Marder, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield, Brandeis University, USA 
  • Pr Elizabeth Phelps, Harvard University, USA 
  • Pr Carmen Sandi, Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics - Brain Mind Institute – EPFL de Lausanne, Suisse 
  • Pr Erin Schuman, Goethe University Frankfurt, Allemagne 
  • Pr Mikael Simons, Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology (TUM-NCB) Technical University Munich German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Allemagne

Audit committee

The Audit Committee assists the Board of Directors in its task of overseeing the management of the Foundation with regard to the preparation of financial information, the auditing of accounts, risk management and cash investment policy.

  • Président - Serge Weinberg, Treasurer of Paris Brain Institute Foundation 
  • Elli Chatzopoulou,  Inserm Representative  
  • Jean Glavany,  Former Minister  
  • Jean-Pierre Martel, Attorney

Appointments and wages committee

The Appointments and Wages Committee assists the Board of Directors in defining and implementing the Group's remuneration policy, and in monitoring budgetary items.

  • Président - Serge Weinberg, Treasurer of Paris Brain Institute Foundation
  • Elli Chatzopoulou, Inserm Representative  
  • Jean Glavany, Former Minister  
  • Jean-Pierre Martel,  Attorney

Committee for coordination of Paris Brain Institute partnership

  • Président - Gérard Saillant, President of Paris Brain Institute 
  • André Le Bivic, CNRS Representative 
  • Didier Samuel, Inserm Representative  
  • Bruno Riou,  Sorbonne University Representative
  • Erik Domain,AP-HP Representative  
     

Ethics and professional conduct committee

The mission of Paris Brain Institute’s Ethics and Professional Conduct Committee (Cometh) is to guide reflection on ethical and professional conduct issues raised by scientific and medical research programs, and to help all those involved in research at Paris Brain Institute to comply with the principles governing ethics and professional conduct by facilitating reflection on own practices and contributing to general thinking based on pioneering experiences. Cometh hosts monthly ethics and professional conduct training sessions for new recruits. 

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