About the Paris Leaders Club
Jean Ponce & Laurent Najman
ICCV
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What is the Paris Leaders Club?
The Paris Leaders Club was created by Viparis and the Convention and Visitors Bureau
(OTCP – Office du Tourisme et des Congrès de Paris) in 2016.
It is a network of leading French scientists and researchers involved in the organization of international congresses, many of whom led the bidding process and won the European or World congress of their field.
The destination selection is often a long and difficult process which can take several months or even years. Thanks to their energy, excellence and network, French scientists and professors bring all the needed legitimacy to the international projects and actively promote Paris’ advantages and heritage. They are now considered as real ambassadors of the city.
Why become an ambassador
Host your international peers and showcase the excellence of French research in your field
Elevate the profile of your research and increase the recognition of your organization
Practical advice and support in submitting your bid (marketing support, design, access to venues and suppliers). We will assist you every step of the way to a successful congress bid and event delivery
Direct connection to the mayor’s office and link to government entities (letters of support)
Network with other members of the Paris Leaders Club, learn from their experiences and share your
Become an ambassador of Paris and participate in the success of Paris as a conference destination and the legacy it brings to science in our city.
The successes
Every year, a ceremony is organized to highlight the successful bids to host international congresses in Paris.
The prestigious “Tour Eiffel d’or” marks the city’s recognition of the contribution of these French scientists in bringing the European or World congress of their field to Paris.
On September 27, 2021, the winners received their Tour Eiffel d'Or at the 2021 awards ceremony.
Jacques de Mouzon
ESHRE
Gael Guilhem
ECSS
Philippe Marcus
EUROCOR
Luc Teot
EWMA
Jean Ponce & Laurent Najman
ICCV
Jacques de Mouzon
ESHRE
Philippe Marcus
EUROCOR
The successes of previous years
Marie Vidailhet
Pr Marie Vidailhet is a professor of neurology at the Salpêtrière Hospital, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
She has a long-standing interest in movement disorders and her main research focuses on motor control, from pathophysiology to experimental therapeutics.
Within the research unit of the ICM (Paris Brain Institute), (co-leader Pr S Lehéricy), her team has contributed to the field of pathophysiology of dystonia, movement disorders and Parkinson's disease, with a multimodal approach including neurophysiology and neuroimaging. They mainly focus on rare diseases, exploring motor (dystonia) and behavioral (Gilles de la Tourette) networks.
Over the years, she has co-authored Publications (H total H index= 87, H, and since 2016 H= 55). Marie Vidailhet and her team have co-authored > 400 articles.
In addition, she is actively involved in international scientific societies (MDS, EAN, WCN),conferences and teaching courses, and in the training and supervision of movement disorder fellows (France, Europe and beyond). She was in charge of the International Society of Movement Disorders meeting in Paris, in 2009, and more recently of the European Academy of Neurology international meeting in 2020 in Paris.
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Lionel Baize
Lionel Baize is the project manager of the International Astronautical Congress 2022 - IAC2022 in Paris, within the "Innovation, Applications and Sciences" department of CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales - Agence Spatiale Française). The IAC is the annual congress of the International Astronautical Federation, it is the world's leading space event.
From 2016 to 2018, he was "Space Exploration Manager", member of the International Space Exploration Coordination Group and also technical advisor of the French delegation to the European Space Agency Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Program Board.
From 2009 to 2015, he was "Senior Technologist in Advanced Capabilities", in charge of the coordination of the "Competence Technical Centres", which are learned societies addressing the different disciplines needed for space systems.
From 1996 to 2008, he was the prime contractor, on behalf of ESA, for the development of the Automated Transfer Vehicle Control Center (International Space Station European cargo vehicle) and the first ATV operations "Jules Verne". Jules Verne successfully completed its mission to the International Space Station in 2008.
Lionel Baize has also been involved in international standardization activities related to space vehicle operations.
He has been an active member of several committees of the International Astronautical Federation: Space Operations Committee, Knowledge Management for Space Organizations (KMTC) as vice-chairman and International Project/Program Management Committee (IPMC) as vice-chairman.
Lionel Baize joined CNES in 1985, he graduated from Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (France) as an engineer in 1981.
Laurent Castéra
Laurent Castera is Professor of Hepatology at the University of Paris (Department of Hepatology, Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France) and Visiting Professor of Medicine at University College of London (Institute of Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital London, United Kingdom).
He received his medical degree from the University of Paris-VI and his Ph.D. from the University of Paris-XII. His research interests focus on non-invasive methods for the assessment of liver fibrosis and NAFLD. He has published more than 200 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Hepatology, Gut and Liver International.
He was chair of the first international guidelines on the use of non-invasive tests (EASL-ALEH Clinical Practice Guidelines J Hepatol 2015). He served on the Scientific Committee of the European Union of Gastroenterology (UEG) from 2011 to 2013 and has been a member of the UEG Council since 2017. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). from 2012 to 2013, Deputy Secretary of EASL from 2013 to 2015 and Secretary General of EASL from 2015 to 2017.
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Jean-Pierre Armand
Jean-Pierre Armand MD, MSc, board certified in medical oncology, is a senior consultant at the GUSTAVE ROUSSY institute cancer campus in Paris and a visiting professor of oncology at Yunnan University in China.
He is co-founder and CEO of Pegascy, a RMI cancer biotech whose goal is to reuse drugs abandoned in phase 1 by Big Pharma.
He was until 2012 the CEO of the Claudius Regaud Institute the cancer center in Toulouse and was in charge of the construction of a new cancer center (university cancer institute in a European research cluster created in the cancer campus of Toulouse.
He is an active member of the medical oncology community.
Previously Head of Early Clinical Programs New Drugs and Medical Director Research and Development at the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, Dr Armand is involved in Phase I-II and III studies for the treatment of solid tumors and the ongoing support of cancer biotechnologies in oncology in France and abroad.
Dr. Armand is active at ESMO, EORTC, the French EMEA (ANSM) and in China.
In 2008 (Stockholm), he received the Esmo award as "European Oncologist of the Year".
In 2012 the TAT awards new drugs in ph 1 in oncology.
Specialties: medical oncology, early drug development.
Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan
Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan, MD, PhD, is a full professor of physiology and medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris, France, and head of the Respiratory Physiology and Pulmonary Function Unit in the Department of Respiratory Diseases at the Cochin Hospital University in Paris.
Dr Dinh-Xuan received his MD from the University of Paris Descartes and his PhD in clinical sciences from the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK. His research interests focus on the role that nitric oxide plays in respiratory physiology and lung disease, and he has been principal or co-investigator on 25 studies. He has authored or co-authored over 300 articles (with an h-index of 44), published in peer-reviewed journals, and over 40 book chapters. He has been associated with the European Respiratory Journal for a long time, serving as Editor-in-Chief, then Associate Editor, and currently as Section Editor. He served as Congress Chair of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) annual meeting held in Paris in 2018 (with more than 23,000 attendees), and is currently Chair of the ERS Publication Committee.
Dr Dinh-Xuan has served as an external expert for CNRS and INSERM (French National Institutes for Scientific and Medical Research), and various national and international research foundations in Europe and worldwide.
Jean-Paul Meningaud
Jean-Paul Meningaud, MD, PhD is a professor, head of the Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, and director of the Ambulatory Surgery Department at Henri Mondor Hospital (Paris Hospitals).
He is a member of the European Council of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, holds a degree in microsurgery, and is a holder of the HDR (a post-doctoral degree authorizing the holder to direct the research of others). Professor Meningaud and his team have extensive experience in the feasibility, reproducibility, risks and benefits of face transplantation. He received the James Barret Brown Award in 2011. He served as president of the European Association of Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery in 2018-2020. He is in charge of seven University Diplomas in aesthetic medicine, one in microsurgery and one in dental implants. He conducts research in regenerative medicine and cosmetic surgery. Certified Expert, Court of Cassation (highest court of the French judicial order), he is a full member of the National Academy of Surgery.
Jean-François Delfraissy
Jean-Francois Delfraissy has been president of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) since January 2017.
Immunologist, he is a specialist in HIV and emerging viruses. He was director of the ANRS (France Recherche Nord&sud Sida-hiv Hepatites) and of the Institute of Immunology and Infectious Diseases (Aviesan-Inserm) until the end of 2016. In 2014, he was appointed interdepartmental coordinator of the response to the Ebola epidemic. He was Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Paris Sud University Hospital (AP-HP), and Professor at the University of Paris Sud Saclay. Pr Delfraissy has several international scientific boards on HIV/AIDS as well as a set of international congresses dedicated to infectious diseases research such as the IAS world conference in July 2017 in Paris. He has published more than 500 articles in the field of immunology, internal medicine and HIV infection. He has established close collaborations with HIV associations in France and in the South. He was named Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor in 2010. In 2018, as President of the CCNE, he led the Etats généraux de la bioéthique, which resulted in a summary report and an opinion 129 of the Committee. These documents are intended to inform French decision-makers in charge of revising the Bioethics law that was adopted at the end of June 2021.
In 2019, he was appointed co-chair "of the Collaborative Group on Social Participation (WHO)." He received the INSERM Honorary Award in 2019. Since March 2020, he is the President of the Covid-19 Scientific Council.
Pr Ziad A. Massy
Ziad A. Massy is Professor of Nephrology and Head of the Nephrology Department at Université Paris Ouest (UVSQ) - CHU Ambroise Paré, Paris, and co-director of the INSERM U-1018 CESP team 5 research unit at UVSQ, Versailles /Villejuif, France.
Professor Massy is a member of the ERA-EDTA board and chair of the ERA-EDTA registry and clinical governance affairs (until June 2021). He is a member of the advisory board of the EURECAM working group and the CKD-MBD WG, and a current member and former co-chair of the European Uremic Toxins (EUTox) group.
He was a senior member of the executive board of KDIGO.
He was awarded the Kidney Foundation Prize in September 2010 and the Hungarian Society of Nephrology Prize in November 2015. His research areas of special interest include uremic toxins, cardiovascular disease, vascular calcification, hyperlipidemia, oxidative stress, and chronic kidney disease. He has published several original articles, reviews, and book chapters in his field of interest (H Index: 70 (via Web of science) or 90 (via Publish or Perish v6), Medline Publications (July 2021) total n=562.
Marie Vidailhet
Pr Marie Vidailhet is a professor of neurology at the Salpêtrière Hospital, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
She has a long-standing interest in movement disorders and her main research focuses on motor control, from pathophysiology to experimental therapeutics.
Within the research unit of the ICM (Paris Brain Institute), (co-leader Pr S Lehéricy), her team has contributed to the field of pathophysiology of dystonia, movement disorders and Parkinson's disease, with a multimodal approach including neurophysiology and neuroimaging. They mainly focus on rare diseases, exploring motor (dystonia) and behavioral (Gilles de la Tourette) networks.
Over the years, she has co-authored Publications (H total H index= 87, H, and since 2016 H= 55). Marie Vidailhet and her team have co-authored > 400 articles.
In addition, she is actively involved in international scientific societies (MDS, EAN, WCN),conferences and teaching courses, and in the training and supervision of movement disorder fellows (France, Europe and beyond). She was in charge of the International Society of Movement Disorders meeting in Paris, in 2009, and more recently of the European Academy of Neurology international meeting in 2020 in Paris.
. Lionel Baize
Lionel Baize is the project manager of the International Astronautical Congress 2022 - IAC2022 in Paris, within the "Innovation, Applications and Sciences" department of CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales - Agence Spatiale Française). The IAC is the annual congress of the International Astronautical Federation, it is the world's leading space event.
From 2016 to 2018, he was "Space Exploration Manager", member of the International Space Exploration Coordination Group and also technical advisor of the French delegation to the European Space Agency Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Program Board.
From 2009 to 2015, he was "Senior Technologist in Advanced Capabilities", in charge of the coordination of the "Competence Technical Centres", which are learned societies addressing the different disciplines needed for space systems.
From 1996 to 2008, he was the prime contractor, on behalf of ESA, for the development of the Automated Transfer Vehicle Control Center (International Space Station European cargo vehicle) and the first ATV operations "Jules Verne". Jules Verne successfully completed its mission to the International Space Station in 2008.
Lionel Baize has also been involved in international standardization activities related to space vehicle operations.
He has been an active member of several committees of the International Astronautical Federation: Space Operations Committee, Knowledge Management for Space Organizations (KMTC) as vice-chairman and International Project/Program Management Committee (IPMC) as vice-chairman.
Lionel Baize joined CNES in 1985, he graduated from Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (France) as an engineer in 1981.
Our partners
Professor Bernard Zalc
26th ISN - ESN Biennial August 20 - 24, 2017 Palais des Congrès de Paris
1,500 participants
Professor Jacky Nizard
European Congress of the European Council and College of Obstetrics and Gynecology March 8 - 10, 2018 Palais des Congrès de Paris
1,500 participants
Professor Catherine Lubetzki
7th ECTRIMS - ACTRIMS Joint Meeting October 25 - 28, 2017 Palais des Congrès de Paris
9,000 participants
Professor Alain Yelnik
International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine March 8 - 12, 2018 Palais des Congrès de Paris
Professor Anh-Tuan Dinh-Xuan Professor Nicolas Roche
ERS International Congress September 15 - 19, 2018 Paris Convention Centre
25,000 participants
Professor Jean-Christophe Mercier
The 7th Congress of the European Academy of Paediatric Societies October 30 - November 3, 2018 Palais des Congrès de Paris
3500 participants
Professor David Néron
14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics - ECCOMAS Congress July 19 - 24, 2020 Palais des Congrès de Paris
3,000 participants
Professor David Dejour
ESSKA European Society of Sports Traumatology 27 - 29 april 2022 Congress Center
4,000 participants
Professor Jean-Antoine Girault
FENS Neuroscience Forum July 9 - 13, 2022 Palais des Congrès de Paris
6,000 participants
The Team
The Team
VIPARIS & OTCP created in 2016 the PARIS LEADERS CLUB gathering professors involved in the organization of international congresses.
A subsidiary of the Paris Ile-de-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield group, Viparis is Europe's leading convention and trade show host.
We welcome on venues in the Paris region:
CNIT Forest . Espace Champerret . Espace Grande Arche . Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild . La Serre . Les Salles du Carrousel . Palais des Congrès d'Issy . Palais des Congrès de Paris . Paris Convention Centre . Paris Expo Porte de Versailles . Paris Le Bourget . Paris Nord Villepinte
exceptional, exciting, innovative and unusual events with 10 million visitors every year, 800 events in all sectors.
Paris, the world's leading conference city, owes this success to the richness of our scientific ecosystem, the quality of our venues and infrastructure, and the diversity of our cultural and gastronomic offerings. And you, the ambassadors, are of course all stakeholders in this success. We thank you for this.
The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau will offer you its know-how, its expertise and its network to better integrate your conventions in the city and to make them shine within the capital.
Now more than ever, we must continue to innovate and show hospitality to welcome conventioneers from all over the world even better. Our challenges for the future are to optimize the journey of our visitors in complete serenity (caring attitude), to accompany the organizers towards more responsible events, with a positive impact in the continuity of the Assises du Tourisme durable, initiated with the City and the professionals (calculator among others), to better integrate the event in the city and to make it radiate within the capital.
Paris can count on you, the ambassadors of this success. Thanks to your support and active contributions, Paris remains the leading destination for hosting international congresses in the world.
