The Board of Trustees draws and evaluates the scientific policy of the Institute with the help of the Scientific Advisory Board. The Board of Trustees supervises the management of private and public funds awarded for the functioning of the Institute.
Composition of the Board of Trustees:
The founding members:
- Jean-Marc Ayrault , Deputy at the French Parliament, Mayor of the City of Nantes, President of Nantes Metropole, President of the Nantes IAS Foundation.
- Joseph Deniaud , CEO Harmonie Mutualité.
- Antoine Frérot, General Director, Veolia Eau.
- Pierre Victoria, Deputy Director of the Sustainable Development Department, Veolia Environnement.
The institutional members :
- Institut National des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société (CNRS).
- Yves Lecointe, President of the University of Nantes.
The coopted members:
- Katharina Biegger, General Secretary Deputy, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany).
- Marie-Claire Certiat, Engineer, Managing Director, EADS Foundation (France).
- Pierre Legendre, Emeritus Professor, University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Honorary Research Director, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Ve section, Paris.
- Helga Nowotny , President of the European Research Council, Emeritus Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ).
- Yves Saint-Geours, France Ambassador in Brasil, Vice-President of the Nantes IAS board of Trustees.
- Arnaud Teyssier, Associate Professor University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Consultative members :
- Françoise Thibault, Ministry of Research.
- Alain Supiot, Professor, University of Nantes, Director of the Nantes IAS.
- Jean-Noël Robert, Research Director at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, President of the Nantes IAS scientific advisory board.
- Samuel Jubé , General Secretary, Nantes IAS.
- Joachim Nettelbeck, General Secretary, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Special adviser to the President of the Board of Trustees.
- Vincent Reina , Developement acting manager, Suez Environnement, Chairman of the Nantes IAS Sponsors Committee.