June 27, 2025
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Report on the Institut Pasteur General Meeting session on June 26
The members of the Institut Pasteur General Meeting met on Thursday June 26.
The meeting, introduced by Yves Saint-Geours, Chairman of the Institut Pasteur Board of Governors, was held in person in the CIS auditorium, but with the possibility of attending remotely via Teams.
During the meeting, the members unanimously approved the minutes of the General Meeting held on June 27, 2024.
They also approved the Annual Report of the Board of Governors, presented by Yves Saint-Geours, by an absolute majority of members present and represented.
Marking a fine link between the previous strategic plan and the Pasteur 2030 strategic plan, the Annual Report (AR) 2024 focuses in particular on the Institute's scientific priorities for 2030, our ambition to make science and research a vector of hope once again, and features a dossier on the links between ‘environmental transitions and health’ which highlights the issues, the players involved and several projects illustrating the Institute's mobilisation in the service of the health of all, particularly in the context of climate change.
Issued following the unveiling of Institut Pasteur's new identity last May, the RA in turn displays the institution's new identity codes, in a ‘magazine’ style, for even greater impact with its readers.
Alongside the presentation of the Annual Report, the meeting also featured a presentation of the annual accounts for 2024 by François Romaneix, Senior Executive Vice-President.
Access the special report on "Environmental changes and health"
Please note:
Once again this year, the number of printed copies of the annual report has been reduced to 2,100, thus continuing the efforts made to reduce the impact on the environment, with eco-labelled suppliers, 100% recycled paper and an optimised format to reduce paper waste. The paper version remains an effective relational tool for reporting on Institut Pasteur's activities to its donors and institutional partners. For this reason, once again, the paper version of the annual report will no longer be distributed to each entity. Instead, it is available in PDF format on the external public website pasteur.fr (see above). At the end of the report, you will find more details on the ‘sustainable’ conditions under which it was produced.
During this session, the General Meeting also took the important step of electing eight new board members for the three-yearly partial renewal of the Board of Governors.
The newly elected board members are:
► Two members chosen for their scientific expertise, proposed by the Scientific Council:
• Florence Niedergang (for a first term)
• Christophe Zimmer (for a first term)
► One member from the Institut Pasteur's non-scientific staff, proposed by the Social and Economic Committee:
• Béatrice Jacquelin (for a first term)
► Five members not working at the Institut Pasteur, including:
a) Two members chosen for their general, scientific or medical expertise:
• Sebastian Amigorena (for a second term)
• Claire Rougeulle (for a first term)
a) Three members chosen for their financial, industrial, business, legal or management expertise:
• André Choulika (for a second term)
• Stéphanie Fougou (for a second term)
• Stéphane Pallez (for a second term)
All the new members have been elected or re-elected for a six-year term, which will run until 2031.
The Board of Governors in its current configuration will complete its term on October 14, 2025. The new Board will take office and elect its new Bureau on October 15.
Finally, the Institut Pasteur President Yasmine Belkaid was invited by the Institut Pasteur Board of Governors to speak about the key areas where progress has already been made towards the goals in the Pasteur 2030 Strategic Plan.