The role of the Scientific Advisory Board is to evaluate the Institute’s activities and actively participate in the definition of its strategic orientation. This board meets twice a year in order to establish the list of candidates selected for a stay in the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, in consultation with the director. Besides these meetings, the members of the Scientific Advisory Board are invited to disseminate information about the Institute, recommend researchers that should be invited, and regularly provide their opinion to the director.
In the long run, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute will include 12 members designated by the Board of Trustees, under recommendation of the director, to serve on a three years basis. Currently, the scientific advisory board includes the following members :
- Samantha Besson, Professor of Law, Fribourg University, Swiss.
- Alain Desrosières , Civil Servant at the French Stratistics Central Agency (INSEE), Member of the Alexandre Koiré’s Research Center for History of Sciences (EHESS, Paris).
- Dany-Robert Dufour, Professor of Philosophy of education at Paris VIII University.
- Rachid Filali-Meknassi, Professor of Law, Mohammed V-Agdal University, Morocco.
- Hartmut Kaelble, Professor at the Institute for History Sciences, Humbold University, Berlin, Germany.
- Doulaye Konaté, Professor of History, University of Bamako, President of the Association of African Historians, Mali.
- Shigehisa Kuriyama, Professor of Science History, Harvard University, USA.
- Ota de Leonardis, Professor of sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
- Annie Montaut, Professor of Hindi/Indian and general linguistics at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France.
- Jean-Noel Robert, Director of Japanese Studies, Practical School of High Studies, France, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, elected to Philology of Japanese Civilization Chair, Collège de France.
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor of History, Doshi Chair of Indian History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
- Franciscus Verellen, Director of the French Far East Institute (EFEO), "History of Taoïsm" Fellowship, France.
Chairman: Jean-Noël Robert