Supervisory board

Professor of Information and Communication Sciences, UPEC

Caroline Ollivier-Yaniv is a professor of information and communication sciences at the University Paris-Est Créteil and coordinator of the College of Scientific Advisers and Digital Strategy at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. She has been a scientific adviser to the General Manager of Higher Education and Professional Integration at the Ministry since 2016.

At the University Paris-Est Créteil, Caroline Ollivier-Yaniv was co-director of the Centre d'études des images, textes, écrits et communication (CÉDITEC) from 2008 to 2019. At the same time, she served as Vice-President for "Humanities and Society" from 2012 to 2016 and as elected member of the Board of Directors from 2012 to 2017.

An honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, her work focuses on the communication and discourse of public institutions as instruments of government, in the field of public health in particular.

Caroline OLLIVIER-YANIV is Chair of the FMSH Supervisory Board and a member of the college of qualified personalities.

President of the University of Picardie Jules Verne

Mohammed Benlahsen is President of the University Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV) since 2016. He has also chaired the A2U Alliance since 2020 and the Presses Universitaires du Septentrion since 2022.

Mohammed Benlahsen has been a member of the ANR Board of Directors since 2020. From 2018 to 2021, he was also appointed member of the "Rare Disciplines" Steering Committee and of the National Action Plan to Improve French Participation in European Research and Innovation Funding Schemes (PAPFE). From 2018 to 2020, Mohammed Benlahsen was also Chairman of the ANCRE Alliance and a member of the ATHENA Alliance Board.

Professor of physics and member of the Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (LPMC) since 1994, his work focuses on disorder in carbonaceous materials.

Mohammed BENLAHSEN is Vice-Chairman of the FMSH Supervisory Board and a member of the college of qualified personalities

President of Clermont-Auvergne University

Mathias Bernard represents France Universités on the supervisory board of the FMSH

Director of the Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (MISHA)

Nicolas Moizard represents the Université of Strasbourg on the supervisory board of the FMSH.

Scientific Director at Sciences Po

Guillaume Plantin represents Sciences Po on the supervisory board of the FMSH

President of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales

Romain Huret represents the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) on the supervisory board.

Director of the Maison Française d'Oxford, CNRS-MEAE

From 1998 to 2010, Pascal Marty was a researcher with the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). He worked at a research unit called the "Centre for functional and evolutionary ecology", in Montpellier, then at the French centre for research in social sciences in Prague. Since 2010, he has been a University professor of Environmental Geography, and taught this subject at the University of La Rochelle, at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. 

Pascal Marty’s research addresses the interactions between societies and their natural environments. He has conducted this at the mixed research unit called the “Laboratory of Social dynamics and Spatial Reconstruction” (CNRS, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris Nanterre U., Paris 8 U., Paris U.).

From 2011-2017, Pascal Marty was Deputy Scientific Director for the CNRS at the Institute of Human and Social Sciences (InSHS). From 2017 to 2020, he coordinated the evaluation of French research laboratories in Humanities and Social Sciences at the French High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education. 

Pascal Marty represents the CNRS on the supervisory board of the FMSH

President of Campus Condorcet

Pierre-Paul ZALIO represents the Campus Condorcet on the supervisory board of the FMSH.

Nathalie DESTAIS is a member of the college of qualified personalities

Gretty MIRDAL is a member of the college of qualified personalities

Pascal LIÉVAUX is a member of the college of qualified personalities

Guillaume RAVEL is a member of the college of qualified personalities

Inspecteur général de l'éducation, du sport et de la recherche

Jean-Pascal Bonhotal a été nommé commissaire du gouvernement auprès de la FMSH en décembre 2020, par le ministre de l'intérieur après avis de la ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche.

Administrative and Financial Manager

Annabelle ROUBINET is the elected staff representative on the supervisory board of the FMSH.

Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS (Center for South Asian and Himalayan Studies: CESAH, CNRS-EHESS) and Senior Researcher at the Asia Centre think tank.

After extensive fieldwork in India, both in rural (South India) and urban (Calcutta) settings, Jean-Luc Racine research then focused on three main themes: i) the internal dynamics of transformation in contemporary India; ii) the integration of emerging India within Asia and the new global order; iii) the geopolitics of South Asia, particularly Indo-Pakistani relations, India’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific, Pakistan’s regional policies, developments in Afghanistan, and China’s policies in the region.

He has published or edited a dozen books on South Asia, including A Pariah Life: The Laughter of the Subjugated (with Josiane Racine), Plon, Terre Humaine, 1995 (UNESCO Representative Works label). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Politique étrangère, the scientific advisory board of Questions internationales, and the Editorial Board of India Review and Asia Trends.

Alongside his research activities, he has held numerous scientific roles at the FMSH: Director of the Franco-Indian cooperation program in social sciences (1992-2002); Director of the International Advanced Studies Program, in partnership with Columbia University (2002-2009); member of the scientific steering committee of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, initially incubated by the FMSH; Scientific Director of the Foundation (2009-2013).

Since 2017, he has served as the Secretary-General of the Association of Friends of the FMSH. He represents the association on the Supervisory Board of the FMSH.