Presidents of the campaign - IHES

Presidents of the campaign

Jean-Laurent Bonnafé

Director and CEO of BNP Paribas, Co-chairman of the IHES campaign committee


Jean-Laurent BONNAFE, administrateur-directeur-général du groupe BNP Paribas.Supporting fundamental research means above all investing over the long term. Geopositioning, big data, machine learning: today’s innovations are born out of yesterday’s theoretical advances. In banking, whether we are predicting the behavior of financial markets, managing risks for our clients and our company, or defining protocols to ensure the security of payments and data, our activities are based on numerous innovations rooted in mathematics and theoretical physics.


Mathematics teaches rigor, the importance of doubting, and creativity. Both in the academic world and in industry, we need minds forged by this rigorous discipline.

Supporting IHES means investing in this school of knowledge and sustainably supporting the progress on which our collective future relies.


Philippe Camus

Senior advisor at Evercore, Chairman of the Board of Aptamir, Co-chairman of the IHES campaign committee



Philippe CamusI have been involved with IHES for many years, after having had the pleasure of discovering the Institute thanks to Jean-Pierre Bourguignon and André Lévy-Lang. I am committed to supporting this unique institution, whose international character and deep roots in the French research landscape I cherish and deeply appreciate.

Contributing to IHES is for me a way of supporting advances in fundamental research in mathematics and physics, both of which fascinate me and are essential to the progress of society.

I particularly enjoy being a member of the Cercle des Mécènes, which was created 5 years ago and brings together a community of science enthusiasts around events that become great opportunities for discussion. The Cercle des Mécènes allows me to meet top-notch experts in their scientific field and to discover some of the research that they are currently carrying forward.


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