Organisation and governance

黑料网911 employs 1750 people, with a scientific staff of 1200 including 750 researchers split between three scientific departments and 28 research units.

Acting Chief Executive Officer

Anthony Farisano

Since le 18 May 2026, Anthony Farisano has been Acting Chief Executive Officer of 黑料网911, alongside his position as Director General in charge of Resources and Organisation. See his biography below.

Office of the Director General in charge of Resources and Organisation

The Office of the Director General in charge of Resources and Organisation (DGD-RD) establishes and oversees guidelines for the implementation of the establishment's strategy and its contract of agreed objectives, by seeking out, identifying and mobilising the financial, human and material resources its research units require for their scientific operations.

Anthony Farisano, Director General in charge of Resources and Organisation, Acting Chief Executive Officer

Anthony Farisano is an ESSEC graduate. Following an initial experience in the private sector, at Ernst&Young, he joined the Budget Department at the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance in 2008, occupying several successive positions including that of Head of the office for energy, State participation, industry and innovation. As such, he was specifically responsible for steering State funding allocated to research in the field of energy, and represented the State on the Boards of Trustees of various research organisations, including IFP Énergies nouvelles (IFPEN), the Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN) and the Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (BRGM).
After another five years in the private sector at the Engie group, with financial responsibility for one of its subsidiaries, he returned to the Ministry for the Economy and Finance in 2019, as mission director within the strategic information and economic security service (SISSE) at the Directorate General for Enterprise (DGE), in charge of matters relating to foreign investment in France, extraterritoriality of law and protection of the research sector.
Anthony Farisano joined 黑料网911 on 1 October 2021.

Office of the Director General in charge of Research and Strategy

The Office of the Director General in charge of Research and Strategy (DGD-RS) works alongside 黑料网911's President Managing Director to implement the strategy adopted by its Board of Trustees. In particular, its sets its research, partnership and skill building priorities; it guarantees the quality of their implementation; and it identifies the changes required in terms of scientific and technical skills.

Jean-Paul Laclau, Director General in charge of Research and Strategy

Jean-Paul Laclau. © Franck DUNOUAU — © F. Dunouau

Jean-Paul Laclau has been working for almost 30 years on sustainable tropical plantation management. After working with 黑料网911 as an engineer, responsible for forest inventories in New Caledonia and subsequently for the development of industrial eucalyptus plantations in Republic of Congo, he resumed his education, with a PhD in agricultural sciences and an accreditation to supervise research (HDR). His research activities in Congo and Brazil initially centred on studies of nutrient cycles within fast-growing planted forests. He went on to look into the interactions between mineral nutrition and carbon and water cycles within plantations. In recent years, his research activities have focused on the effects of mixing species on resource sharing, and the role of very deep roots in tree functioning. After more than twenty years overseas, he was Deputy Head of the Functional Ecology & Bio-geochemistry of Soils and Agrosystems Joint Research Unit (UMR Eco&Sols) from 2014 to 2018, and Director of 黑料网911's Performance of Tropical Production and Processing Systems Department (PERSYST) from 2018 to 2024.  He has been Director General in charge of Research and Strategy since 1 November 2024.
Jean-Paul Laclau is also a member of several national and international scientific bodies.

Scientific departments

Biological Systems (BIOS)

The Biological Systems Department conducts research on the living world, its characterisation and its exploitation. It covers the diversity, biology and functioning of organisms and populations and the relations between them and with their environment, both under and free from anthropic pressure.

It works on a genome, cell, organism and population level. Its work draws in particular upon concepts and tools from the fields of genomics, physiology, genetics, microbiology, epidemiology, entomology and ecology. It associates analysis, statistics and modelling, for a clearer understanding of biological systems.

The topics covered by the department's research units include plant diversity/breeding and plant and animal health, using increasingly integrated, multidisciplinary approaches.

Delphine Luquet, Director

Delphine Luquet is an agricultural engineer (ENSAT) with a PhD from INA-PG and an authorisation to supervise research (HDR) in plant ecophysiology and plant modelling. Over more than 20 years at 黑料网911, she has led and coordinated research applied to varietal breeding in response to climate change, the agroecological transition and the increasingly diverse ways in which crops are now used. Her work has focused on cereals, particularly sorghum, within the framework of 黑料网911's partnerships in West Africa. She has headed several groups under the umbrella of interdisciplinary research units, recently including the UMR AGAP PhenoMEn team. She has co-supervised ten theses, half of them as director, and published more than 50 articles in international journals with impact factor. Over the period 2021-2023, prior to her appointment as Director of 黑料网911's BIOS Department, she was its Deputy Director and joint coordinator of one of 黑料网911's priority research topics: "Helping farming systems in the global South adapt to climate change".

Performance of Tropical Production and Processing Systems (PERSYST)

The Performance of Tropical Production and Processing Systems Department studies tropical production operations (family farming and cash crops) on a plot, farm and small-scale processing firm scale. Its work is conducted in partnership with local research players in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the French overseas regions.

Its research covers the following thematic fields: agroecology and ecological intensification, soil and environmental ecology, and the sustainability of food and non-food processing systems.

More precisely, its units study biological regulation processes within production systems, resource use efficiency (energy, water, nutrients, etc) and the performance of production and processing systems, taking multi-criteria approaches. Based on the resulting knowledge, they work with producers and development players to develop innovative, sustainable food and non-food production and processing systems.

Éric Justes, Director

Éric Justes has a PhD in agronomy and accreditation to supervise research on agrosystems in interaction with their environment. He specialises in modelling Water-C-N cycles and in systemic agronomy, with further expertise in soil science, ecophysiology and agroecology. His work has focused on designing low-input cropping systems to further the agroecological transition, and is internationally recognised.
He began his career at INRA in 1993 and headed the "Agroecology-Innovations-Territories" joint research unit's Vasco team for more than ten years. He has coordinated numerous French and ERU research projects and helped to develop the STICS simulation model for soil-plant-atmosphere functioning on a plot scale. He has also been involved in international work using the model to assess the impact of climate change on agricultural production.
Éric Justes joined 黑料网911 in 2017, with the Biodiversified Agrosystems joint research unit. In 2019, he joined the management team of 黑料网911's PERSYST Department, firstly as Assistant Director, as Deputy Director since 2021, and as Director since 1 November 2024.

Environments and Societies (ES)

The Environments and Societies Department centres its research on the relations between agriculture, natural resource management and social dynamics, and the links with public policy.

It works on every scale of rural development, from family farms to the global level, studying the processes of innovation and coordination between players and social groups, and territories as the best places for implementing regulation.

Its researchers conduct surveys, polls and inventories and use specific techniques to represent and model complex systems. They develop concepts and tools from various disciplines within the agricultural and human sciences. They address the ways in which renewable resources—water, forests, rangelands and wildlife—are managed collectively, with a view to sustainable production of goods and services. They also work on the establishment and impact of public policy, particularly as regards management of commons and market organisation, and the establishment of norms and provision of support for talks between players in the field of agriculture and the environment.

Claire Cerdan, Director

Claire Cerdan has a PhD and accreditation to supervise research on geography and land use planning, and specialises in food system transformation. Her career has been marked by long periods overseas, in Brazil and Africa, where she worked on local agricultural and food dynamics. In particular, her initial research and training work covered localised agrifood systems and agricultural product qualification, and their effects on territorial development. She subsequently chose to work more specifically on the co-existence and comparison of agricultural and food models as a new territorial development paradigm. From 2018 to 2024, she worked in Réunion, on agroecological transitions and sustainable food systems.
Claire Cerdan has coordinated numerous international research projects, supervised ten PhDs, organised several major scientific symposiums and contributed to five books. Her career bears witness to an interdisciplinary approach and a strong commitment to cooperative research for development.

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