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
- Chairman – Serge Weinberg, Chairman of Weinberg Capital Partners.
- Vice-President – Jean Todt, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety
- Eddie Misrahi, Treasurer of Paris Brain Institute, CEO of Altamir
- Jean Glavany, Former Minister
- Jean-Pierre Martel, Attorney
College of qualified persons
- Richard Frackowiak, Professor, Director of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)
- Philippe Ménasché, Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Isabelle Ryl, Professor in Informatics, University of Lille - Director of PRAIRIE (PaRis Artificial Intelligence Research InstitutE)
College of full members
- André Le Bivic, Representative of the CNRS as Director of the Institute of Biological Sciences
- Didier Samuel, Representative of INSERM as President and CEO
- Bruno Riou, Representative of Sorbonne University as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
- Nicolas Revel, Representative of the AP-HP as Director-General
College of friends of the foundation
- Martine Assouline, CEO of Editions Assouline
- Jean-Charles Decaux, CEO of JCDecaux
- Christian Schmidt de La Brélie, CEO of Klesia
Governement commissioner
- Jean-Marie Paulot, Inspector General of Administration (IGA)
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).
- Prof. Adrienne Fairhall, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Department of Physics, and Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, United States
- Prof. Erin Schuman, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- Prof. Costantino Iadecola, Feil Family Institute for Brain and Mind Research, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Prof. Paul Matthews, Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
- Prof. Daphna Shohamy, Director and CEO of the Zuckerman Institute, Kavli Professor of Brain Sciences
- Prof. Troy Margrie, Professor of Systems Neuroscience and Deputy Director
- Prof. Cornélia Van Duijn, Professor of Epidemiology at Oxford Population Health and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and Co-Director of HDR UK for the Oxford region
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.
- Chairman - Eddie Misrahi, former chairman of Seven2 (formerly Apax Partners)
- Karine Lanini, Regional Representative of INSERM
- 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.
