Academic and senior advisor with extensive international experience spanning higher education, life sciences, innovation financing and public policy. His career has consistently focused on transforming scientific and technological innovation into economic and societal value. He currently serves as a board member, teacher and advisor in the fields of higher education, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence and life sciences. He teaches entrepreneurship at Tianjin University and sits on the advisory boards of several leading institutions in China, including HKUST-GZ, Westlake University and EIT Ningbo. He also chairs the Board of Huawei Technologies France. From 2013 to 2018, he served as the first Executive President of École polytechnique, where he led a major transformation to strengthen research, internationalization and entrepreneurship, while developing strategic partnerships worldwide.Previously, he founded and led JNBD, a consulting firm in life sciences, and held senior governance roles at Guerbet. Earlier in his career, he worked in the French administration and in international biopharmaceutical companies. A graduate of École polytechnique and member of the Corps des Mines, he is an Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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