Academic Council

President: Ms Cécile SAKAI

Statutory members

Representing the state:

  • Ms Claire GIRY, Director General for Research and Innovation at the MESR, represented by Ms Alexa PIQUEUX, Research and Innovation Strategy Department, SHS Project Manager - History and Digital Humanities
  • Mr Laurent TOULOUSE, Deputy Director of Higher Education and Research at the Directorate General for Globalisation at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, represented by Ms Francine D'ORGEVAL, Expert in the Human and Social Sciences, Archaeology and Heritage Department

 

Representing the directorate of the EFEO:

  • The director, Mr Nicolas FIÉVÉ
  • The director of studies, Ms Valérie GILLET

Representing the Institut de France:

  • Ms Marianne BASTID-BRUGUIERE, member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, representative of the Perpetual Secretary
  • Mr Henri-Paul FRANCFORT, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  • Mr Jean-Noël ROBERT, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  • Mr Alain THOTE, member of the Académie des inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, representative of the Perpetual Secretary

 

Representing the academic community:

  • Ms Claire BRISSET, ordinary professor at the University of Geneva
  • Mr Eric LEFEBVRE, Director of the Cernuschi Museum
  • Ms Cécile SAKAI, Professor Emeritus, Université Paris Cité
  • Mr Ingo STRAUCH, Professor at the University of Lausanne

 

Representing partner institutions:

  • Ms Sophie MAKARIOU, curator, President of the Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet
  • Ms Dana RAPPOPORT, research director at the CNRS, codirector of the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE - UMR 8170)
  • Mr Olivier Venture, Director of Studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études

 

Qualified person (documentation, dissemination...)

  • Mr Jérôme PETIT, Head of Collections, Bibliothèque Nationale de France

 

Representing the EFEO faculty:

  • Ms Michela BUSSOTTI, professor/ substitute: Mr François LACHAUD, professor
  • Ms Elisabeth CHABANOL, lecturer / substitute: Ms Véronique DEGROOT, lecturer
  • Mr Guillaume DUTOURNIER, lecturer / substitute: Mr Vladyslav, contract researcher

 

Consultative membres

  • Ms Katia JUHEL, Curator of the Library
  • Ms Cécilia MENDES, Director general of administration
  • Mr Martin NOGUEIRA RAMOS, Head of Publications
  • Ms Isabelle POUJOL, Head of Communications and the EFEO Photo Library
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