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.
Professor (Collège de France) – Japanese studies
President of the ILARA Board of Directors
Director of the Association Maisons de la sagesse-Traduire – Greek antiquity
Research Director (EHESS / CRLAO) – Sino-Tibetan languages
Distinguished Professor at the ANU, director of CoEDL and ECDI – Linguistic typology, Australian and Papuan languages.
Professor Emeritus (Université Lumière-Lyon 2 / DDL) – Native American languages
President of All European Academies, Professor (Université de Bâle) – Egyptology
Professor (Oregon University) – Nilotic and Native American languages
Director of ELDP – Linguistic documentation, psycholinguistics
Ex officio members
Director of Studies at EPHE-PSL, Interim Director since 22 July 2024
Deputy Scientific Director at InSHS in CNRS, DAS in charge of section 34 and the MSH-IEA network
Director at Atelier national de recherche typographique
President of EPHE-PSL
Lecturer at Université de Tours, Project manager at DGRI, SHS department, representing the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation
Dean of the Historical and Philological Sciences Section at EPHE-PSL
Elected members
Lecturer at EPHE-PSL, representative of the religious sciences section of EPHE-PSL
Professor at ENS-PSL, director of studies cumulating at EPHE-PSL, representative of the historical and philological sciences section of EPHE-PSL
Representative of ILARA staff
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