Bodies of the Institute

Status

The Paris IAS is an association governed by the French Law of 1901. Its Chairman is Michel Wieviorka, Administrator at Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme; its Treasurer is Jean-Yves Mérindol, Director of ENS-Cachan; its Secretary is Bernadette Madeuf, President of Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense.
The purpose of “The Association for the Institute for Advanced Study of Paris” is “to host high-level international researchers in Paris, providing the facilities for research that foster creativity and innovation”.

Directors

Patrice Duran and Alain Schnapp are Directors of the Paris IAS .

Academic Advisory Board

The members of the Academic Advisory Board are internationally recognised researchers familiar with the work of the other Institutes for Advanced Study in the world.
The Academic Advisory Board assesses applications and gives an opinion on the programmes and general orientation of the  Paris IAS.
It is chaired by Wolf Lepenies, from Berlin’s Wissenschaftskolleg.

Academic Advisory Board members:

Alain Berthoz, Collège de France, Paris (cognitive sciences, neurophysiology)
Barbara Cassin, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS; philosophy)
Catherine Colliot-Thélène, University of Rennes 1 (political philosophy)
Pierre Force, Columbia University (literature and the history of thought)
Paul de Grauwe, University of Leuven (international economics and European issues)
Bernard Hubert, National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA; sustainable development and ecosystems)
Hanspeter Kriesi, University of Zurich (political science)
Robert Morrissey, University of Chicago (literature and cultural history)
François Ost, Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis, Brussels (legal theory and philosophy)
Gilles Pécout, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (history)
Dominique Pestre, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (history of science)
Brian Stock, University of Toronto, former fellow of Collège de France (history and literature)
Harald Weinrich, Bielefeld University/Collège de France (philology)

The Association’s founding institutions:

- École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – PRES HESAM
- École Normale Supérieure Paris
- École Normale Supérieure Cachan
- École Pratique des Hautes Études – PRES HESAM
- Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
- Université Panthéon-Sorbonne-Paris 1 – PRES HESAM
- Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 – PRES Université Paris Cité
- PRES Sorbonne Universities – Université Paris-Sorbonne-Paris 4
- PRES Sorbonne Universities – Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6
- Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense-Paris 10
- Université Paris 13
- Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin

The Paris IAS headquarters are at 190 Avenue de France, 75013 Paris.