Administrative structure

The Foundation is managed by an Administrative Council of 12 members divided in three colleges
(founders, legal members andqualified members) :

President
Ms Maryvonne de Saint-Pulgent, legal member, senior member of the Council of State

Executive office
- Vice-president: Mr Philippe Raynaud, qualified member, Professor of political sciences, University Pantheon-Assas, Paris II, member of the University Institute of France
- Secretary: Mr Bernard Teissier, qualified member, Director of Research, CNRS, Mathematics institute of Jussieu University,
Paris VII.
- Treasurer: Mr Thierry Chevallier, qualified member, participatory loans Director, member of the board of Finorpa GIE

Other trustees:
- Ms Patrick Audebert, legal member representative from the Minsitry of the Interior
- Mr Nicolas Crevoisier, founder
- Ms Florence de Foucauld, legal member representative from the Ministry for the Arts
- Mr Fotis C. Kafatos, qualified member, biologist; Professor at Imperial College, London; President of the European Research
Council and chairman of its Scientific Council
- Ms Claire Lebel, founder,
- Mr Olivier Lebel, founder,
- Mr Rostane Mehdi, qualified member; Professor at the faculty of Law, Aix-Marseilles III University
- Ms Françoise Thibault, legal member representative from the Ministry for the Research

The Administrative Council meets twice a year and its Executive Office every month.

Decisions taken by the Administrative Council concerning seminars, residential study and prizes are based on the evaluations provided by the Scientific Council.

Scientific Council of the Fondation des Treilles in 2009

President
Ms Nicole Le Douarin
Permanent honorary secretary of the Academy of Science; Professor emeritus, Collège de France (Chair of cellular and molecular embryology).

Members
Mr Jean-Laurent Casanova
Professor of paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Necker; Paediatrician, Unit for Immunology and Paediatric Haematology, Paediatric Department, Necker Hospital; Director of the Research Unit for Human Genetics and Infectious Diseases, INSERM U550.

Ms Barbara Cassin
Philologist and philosopher specialising in Ancient Greece; Director of Research, CNRS; Director, Centre Léon Robin for Research on Ancient Thought, CNRS - Paris IV Sorbonne  - ENS Ulm; Associate Chief editor of the collection  “L’ordre philosophique”, Seuil and of the collection “Points-bilingues”.

Mr Antoine Compagnon
Professor, Collège de France, Chair of “ Modern and Contemporary French Literature: history, criticism and theory”.

Mr Frédéric Dias
Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin (on leave from the Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan).

Mr Jules Hoffmann
President of the Academy of Science; Director, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg.

Mr Pascal Perrineau
Director, Research Centre for Political Research of Political Science (CEVIPROF); University Professor, Institute for Political Studies, Paris.

Mr Jean Petitot
Mathematician and philosopher. Director of Study, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales; Professor, Ecole polytechnique; Director, Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée.

Mr Pierre Toubert
Professor emeritus, College de France (chair of Occidental history) ; Member of the University Institute of France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)

According to the statutes of the Foundation, the Scientific Council comprises 7 to 11 members and meets three times a year.

For information about the current operations of the Foundation, please refer to the pages “contacts” and “estate”.