Governance 2025

Board of Directors

Representatives of the founding members

  • Alain MÉRIEUX
    President
  • Chantal MÉRIEUX
  • Karine MEHLER
  • Olivia MÉRIEUX
  • Alexandre MÉRIEUX

Honorary member

  • Prof. David L. HEYMANN

Qualified Persons

  • Dr. Robert SEBBAG
    Vice-President
  • Prof. Christian BRÉCHOT
  • Didier CHERPITEL
  • Prof. Jean-François DELFRAISSY
  • Pierre-Yves REVOL*
  • Prof. Jean-William PAPE
  • Bernard SINOU

Government representative

  • The Prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region

Management Committee

Jean-Pierre BOSSER**

Director General
Dorothée Lintner***
Managing Director

Clélia LEBAYLE

Secretary General & Director of Support Functions

Dr. Nicolas ZELLER****

Medical & Expertises Director

Marie ENGEL

Director International & Laboratories

Dr. François-Xavier BABIN

Director of Development

Sandra ANGELE

Director of Les Pensières Center for Global Health

Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Hubert ENDTZ

Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

Prof. Francine NTOUMI

Congolese Foundation for Medical Research (Congo)

Dr Firdausi QADRI

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research (Bangladesh)

Dr Voahangy RASOLOFO

Institut Pasteur Madagascar (Madagascar)

Dr Robert SEBBAG

Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital (France)

Dr Wenhong ZHANG

Huashan Hospital of Fudan University (China)

  • *Since December 17, 2025
  • **Until Septemer 30, 2025
  • ***Since October 1, 2025
  • ****Until March 31, 2026, then Dr. François-Xavier Babin interim