(Left to right from the top) François Clanché, Director; Emmanuel Tabart, General Secretary; Géraldine Duthé, Deputy Director for Research; Stéphanie Younès, Head of Communications; Cris Beauchemin, Deputy Director of Outreach.
Teams
INED researchers work in one of ten research units depending on their research areas and approaches. The engineers, technicians, and administrative personnel who make research work and collective life at INED possible work in either research support teams or the General Secretariat.
The Director’s Office
INED’s director, appointed by state decree, defines the organization’s major orientations in ways consistent with the priorities of the administrative supervision bodies. These overall orientations are formulated following joint consultation and implementation processes and with support from the Director’s Office committee, made up of the general secretary, the deputy director for research, the deputy director for outreach, the head of international relations and partnerships, and the head of communications.
The Director’s Office is responsible for ensuring favorable conditions for INED research development, as well as Institute budget management, valorization of our human resources, and compliance with public research organization regulations.
Organization Chart
INED has a staff of nearly 250 people. The institute has 10 research units, one joint service unit and seven research support services.
See the organisational chart
Governing Bodies
Governance that opens onto the immediate institutional environment
INED is headquartered at the heart of Campus Condorcet, a group of institutions that work in the human and social sciences. The Campus is therefore an environment that constitutes a source of interdisciplinary cooperation, and this dimension of partnership between INED and other Campus institutions, together with a similar type of relations we have with major French research organizations (INSEEs, INSERM, the CNRS) and our involvement in European Union and international research networks, is an integral part of INED governance.
In this connection, the Institute is actively involved in Campus Condorcet governance by way of the administrative supervision council, while taking part in collective Campus projects such as the development of shared infrastructures.
INED has several governance bodies that oversee its activities: the Board of Administration; the Scientific Council, which evaluates the Institute’s scientific orientations; and the Evaluation Committee.
Board of Administration
This is INED’s decision-making body. The Board approves major orientations and the budget, and ensures Institute activity compliance with the priorities indicated by the administrative supervision ministries. It regularly examines the Institute’s activity reports and makes decisions on organization and partnership development directions. The Board is composed of representatives of the administrative supervision officials, outside experts, staff-elected Institute? members, and representatives of civil society.
Consult the composition of the administration board
Scientific Council
The Scientific Council is INED’s proposal-emitting and evaluation authority. It is called upon to assist the Board of Administration and the director and to take part in determining the Institute’s scientific orientations.
The Council examines all aspects of the situation of demography and population research and the prospects of this research.
It is composed of French and non-French scientists who are responsible for evaluating INED research programs and studies.
Consult the composition of the Scientific Council
Evaluation Committee (Céva)
This committee is in charge of evaluating individual permanent researchers and deciding on promotions. It also operates as admissibility jury for new permanent-researcher hiring. It is composed exclusively of scientists, half of whom come from outside the Institute.
Consult the composition of the Evaluation Committee
Ethics Committee
The Ethics Committee may be consulted for any ethics issue associated with INED research study or survey practices. For example, the Committee was asked to render an opinion regarding a survey on the sexual and reproductive health of minors, the aims being to ensure that consentment to participate in the survey was obtained in compliance with the relevant regulations, to protect sensitive data, and to assist respondents.
The Committee is also involved in raising Institute research team awareness around ethics questions.
Consult the composition of the Ethic Comitee
