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Board of directors

ILARA has a Board of Directors which deliberates on the general orientations of the institute and its budget, gives an opinion on the training offered within the institute, as well as on the designation of partner establishments . It includes ex officio members, elected members and qualified personalities proposed by ex officio members and elected members.

ILARA’s Board of Directors is chaired by Jean-Noël Robert, professor at the Collège de France and member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Qualified personalities

Eight qualified personalities were appointed by the President of the EPHE on the proposal of the Board of Directors and the opinion of the Board of the EPHE.

Jean-Noël Robert

Professor (Collège de France) – Japanese studies

President of the ILARA Board of Directors

Barbara Cassin

Director of the Association Maisons de la sagesse-Traduire – Greek antiquity

Redouane Djamouri

Research Director (EHESS / CRLAO) – Sino-Tibetan languages

Nicholas Evans

Distinguished Professor at the ANU, director of CoEDL and ECDI – Linguistic typology, Australian and Papuan languages.

Colette Grinevald

Professor Emeritus (Université Lumière-Lyon 2 / DDL) – Native American languages

Antonio Loprieno

President of All European Academies, Professor (Université de Bâle) – Egyptology

Doris Payne

Professor (Oregon University) – Nilotic and Native American languages

Mandana Seyfeddinipur

Director of ELDP – Linguistic documentation, psycholinguistics

Ex officio members

Guillaume Jacques

Director of Studies at EPHE-PSL, Interim Director since 22 July 2024

Ricardo Etxepare

Deputy Scientific Director at InSHS in CNRS, DAS in charge of section 34 and the MSH-IEA network

Thomas Huot-Marchand

Director at Atelier national de recherche typographique

Michel Hochmann

President of EPHE-PSL

David Fiala

Lecturer at Université de Tours, Project manager at DGRI, SHS department, representing the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation

Denis Rousset

Dean of the Historical and Philological Sciences Section at EPHE-PSL

Elected members

Samra Azarnouche

Lecturer at EPHE-PSL, representative of the religious sciences section of EPHE-PSL

Daniel Petit

Professor at ENS-PSL, director of studies cumulating at EPHE-PSL, representative of the historical and philological sciences section of EPHE-PSL

Murad Suleymanov

Representative of ILARA staff

Hélène Gérardin

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