Each member helps us identify technological shifts and provides guidance on our research and innovation efforts, our chosen themes and how our research compares at the global level.
Members also share their views on Orange’s major scientific and technical directions.
Gérard Berry
Chair of the Scientific Council
Gérard Berry is a computer scientist and graduate of École Polytechnique. He served as Professor at the Collège de France from 2012 to 2019 after holding two annual chairs. He was previously Director of Research at Inria (2009), Chief Scientist at Esterel Technologies (2001–2009) and a researcher, then Director of Research at École des Mines.
He received a CNRS gold medal in 2014. His areas of expertise include programming languages and semantics, program verification, reactive and real-time programming and circuit design automation.
Claudie Haigneré
Claudie Haigneré is a physician and neuroscientist. A member of the European Astronaut Corps, she completed two space missions, on MIR space station and the ISS.
She served as Minister for Research and Minister for European Affairs under President Jacques Chirac.
She also headed the Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie. A Grand Officer of the Légion d’Honneur and a member of the Académie des Technologies, she served as senior advisor to the Director General of the European Space Agency.
Valérie Schafer
Valérie Schafer is a professor of contemporary European history at the C²DH (Center for Contemporary and Digital History) at the University of Luxembourg and an associate researcher at the Internet and Society Center (CNRS).
Her research focuses on the history of the Internet, the Web and digital culture.
Raja Chatila
Raja Chatila is Professor Emeritus at Sorbonne University specializing in artificial intelligence and robotics.
He chairs the global IEEE Initiative on the Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, co-chairs the Responsible AI working group of the Global Partnership on AI, is a member of the French National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics and is an IEEE Fellow.
Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Anne-Marie Kermarrec is a specialist in distributed systems and has been Professor of Computer Science at EPFL in Switzerland since 2020.
She previously founded and led the startup Mediego (a personalization service for online media), served as Director of Research at Inria Rennes (2004–2015) and worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research (2000–2004) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
She has been an ACM Fellow since 2016 and a member of the European Academy since 2013.
Olivier Festor
Olivier Festor is Professor at the University of Lorraine and Director of TELECOM Nancy. His research focuses on programmable networks, their configuration, monitoring and security. He has authored more than 150 international publications and received the Dan Stokesberry Award from IEEE COMSOC in 2019.
At Inria, he designed and led the first European Network of Excellence on network management before spearheading research at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (ICT Labs).
Pierre-Noël Giraud
Pierre Noël Giraud, graduate of the Mines general engineering program, is Professor of Economics at Mines ParisTech and at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco (UM6P/Mines ParisTech Chair on the Industrial Economics of Africa’s Growth), as well as at Dauphine PSL (Chair in Finance and Sustainable Development).
He has authored numerous works, including Global inequality (Gallimard, 2019) and The Useless Man: A Political Economy of Populism (Odile Jacob, 2018). In 2016, Pierre Noël Giraud received the Grand Prix Turgot for lifetime achievement. He is a founding member of the Académie des Technologies.
