FACTS Honorary Board

Development, health, humanitarian action, education, environment - so many themes which, without being exhaustive, mobilize the intervention of numerous actors, NGO, governmental and multilateral agencies, academic institutions and consultancies world-wide.

From all these activities emerge knowledge, know‑how, results from experiments and valuable problem solving, which are not adequately disseminated and shared between actors in the field. The FACTS initiative, launched by Professor Kourilsky, aims to enhance, capitalise and disseminate the knowledge resources produced by field actions and foster their take up by all in routine actions.

Highly-respected people, composing the Honorary Board, have already accepted to support the FACTS Initiative:

Hélène Ahrweiler
President of the University of Europe; Former Rector of the Paris Academy

Michèle Barzach
Former French Minister of Health; President GlaxoSmithKline foundation

Jean-Claude Berthelemy
Professor at the University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

François Gros
Honorary Permanent Secretary, French Academy of Sciences

Mohamed Hassan
Executive Director, Third World Academy of Sciences

Pierre Marc Johnson
Former Prime Minister of Quebec

Bernard Kouchner
Founder of Medecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)

Philippe Kourilsky
Professor at the Collège de France; Honorary Director General, Institut Pasteur

Federico Mayor
Former Director General of UNESCO; President, Fundación Cultura de Paz

François Nordmann
Former Ambassador of Switzerland to France

Rajendra K. Pachauri
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Director-General, TERI

Mamphela Ramphele
Former Managing Director, World Bank; Former Vice-Chancellor, Cape Town University

Ellis Rubinstein
President, New York Academy of Sciences; President, Scientists Without Borders

Amartya Sen
Economist, Nobel laureate in Economics

Ismail Serageldin
Director, Library of Alexandria; Former Vice President Special Programmes, The World Bank

Elie Wiesel
Writer, Peace Nobel laureate

Institut Veolia Environnement