Presidium :
Prof. Helene de Rode, President , FUCaM (Mons), Philippe and Partners, Liege, Belgium
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Prof. H. de Rode graduated University of Louvain, where she became professor of law in 1993 till 2003. She published numerous papers and gave invited talks in international meetings and symposia. She also practices law and is a partner of the law firm Philippe and Partners. She is a member of the Liege Bar Association. She oversees for the Academy programmes related to Law Sciences. |
Prof. Michel Deza, Vice President, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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Professor Michel Deza made important contributions in applied mathematics, esp. discrete geometry, combinatorics and optimization. He published over 240 research papers, co-authored 4 books and gave numerous invited talks in international conferences. He is, since 1980, Editor-in-chief of European Journal of Combinatorics, belongs to editorial board in 8 other international journals and edited numerous books. |
Andre Leclercq, Treasurer, ArcelorMittal, Belgium
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André Leclercq, graduate in Law and in Economic Law, has managed his career since 1979 in major European companies and is one of the most recognised specialist in Human Resources Management in Europe. Fabricom, Ikea, Diamant Boart, Volkswagen, Holcim and since 2003 Arcelor are the companies he has been working for. He has always been involved in major strategic projects and has every time played the role of the “human federator” giving the project teams the power to achieve their ambitious goals through the empowerment of their members and through a very professional management style of the project governance. André is today member of the Corporate team in charge of Human Resources Management for the whole Group ArcelorMittal (280.000 people). He is also Executive in more than 10 non profit associations. |
Prof. Marie-Paule Pileni, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
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Marie-Paule Pileni is a Distinguished Professor at the Université
Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI and chair of Institut Universitaire
de France and adjunct Professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the
school of chemistry and biochemistry, Gergia Tec, Atlanta (USA) .
She studied the development of structure-reactivity relationships in
organized molecular systems, and, about the physical properties of
these new materials, developed the self-organization of the
nanocrystals in compact hexagonal networks (2D) and face-centered
cubic structures (3D) at the mesoscopic scale. In 1999, she
demonstrated the specific collective properties of these assemblies.
In 2004, in addition to the physical properties, she proved the
existence of properties intrinsic to these assemblies.She has
published more than 377 articles in international scientific
journals. Between 1999 et 2009, she received the Langmuir award of
the American Chemical Society, the lecture award of the Japanese
Chemical Society, the Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation in Germany, the Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science and Emila Valori from the
French Academy of Sciences. In addition, she was the French citation
laureate, the Institute of Scientific Information Award for most
quoted French scientist between 1981 and 1998. She is a member of
the European Academy of Science, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Engineering Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and
has a doctorate honoris causa from Chalmers University, Göteborg,
Sweden. She is a officier « dans l'Ordre National de la Légion
d'Honneur » and « dans l'Ordre National du Mérite ». |