Pacale Briand is ANR’s new Director General

Pascale Briand, currently Director General for Food at the French Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, previously Director General of the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), research director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), delegate to the Interministerial Cancer Prevention Mission and deputy director of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) at rue d’Ulm, is appointed Director General of the French National Research Agency (ANR). She succeeds Jacqueline Lecourtier, whose term of office will run out on 1 February 2012.

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