President of the OPC

 Guest Professor at UNSW (University of New South Wales), Sydney
 Director for Advocacy at the International Council of Ophthalmology
 President for Western Europe, Administrator and member of the Executive committee at The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
 Director of the Africa Eye Foundation
 Doctorate in sciences and medicine, specialist in ophthalmology, public health and tropical medicine
 International consultant and teacher for health and development
 Former Managing Director for a pharmaceutical group
 Former head of the fight against blindness and deafness at the World Health Organisation
 Former Director for the Institut d’Ophtalmologie Tropicale de l’Afrique.

Vice-President of the OPC

 Chief Medical Officer
 Professor of sensory aerospatiale physiopathology
 Ophthalmology expert to the French Transport Department
 Ophthalmology expert to the European Agency of Civil Aviation, European Space Agency and European Aerial Navigation Agency
 Member of Collège des professeurs d’ophtalmologie européens
 Scientific director for the ‘visual reeducation’ degree at the Université Descartes – Paris V
 Founding President of l’Association représentative des initiatives en basse vision
 Former Director of the Institution nationale des Invalides
 Former Lead Professor of La Chaire de chirurgie spéciale du Val de Grâce
 Former Director of the Centre Principal d’Expertises Médicales du Personnel Navigant de l’aéronautique à Paris-Clamart.

Treasurer

 Medical Ophthalmologist at Saint Genis Pouilly
 Former Medical Director at Théa Laboratories
 Public Health ophthalmologist
 Programme manager for clinical and epidemiological research for the World Health Organization in Geneva.
 Works on ophthalmology missions in Sub-Saharan Africa, for the elimination of blinding trachoma (Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea and Chad), for the OPC’s account there
 Director of the African Institute of Tropical Ophthalmology (IOTA), partner centre of the WHO for the prevention of blindness, Bamako, Mali
 Head of the training department of the African Institute of Tropical Ophthalmology (IOTA), partner centre of the WHO for the prevention of blindness, Bamako, Mali
 Technical advisor to the Programme National de lutte Contre la Cécité (National Programme to fight against blindness) and head of ophthalmology at the Lamordé University Hospital, in Niamey, Niger
 Head of ophthalmology at the Tahoua Regional Hospital, Niger.

Secretary

 Medical Biologist
 Working on onchocerciasis since 1965 and for 25 years has participated in the fight against this disease in West Africa as part of the Organisation for Coordination and Cooperation for the Fight against Major Epidemics (OCCGE), as part of the Overseas Scientific and Technical Research and then for the WHO
 Former head of the department of health at the l’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
 Consultant and member of the Technical Consultative Committee for the WHO African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC).

• the centre of medical expertise for Air France flight staff
• the Bône hospital, Algeria
• the Vincennes recruitment centre, France
• the National Centre of Ophthalmology XV/XX (deputy to Professor Dubois-Poulsen).

Former President for the OPC (2010-2011)
 Jurist
 Former President of the Board of Directors and Administrator of the Zefal society, world leader in her field.

Former Programmes Director
 Graduate from the Department of Medicine at Grenoble
 Ophthalmologist
 Graduate in Tropical Medicine from the Department of Medicine at Dakar
 Certificate in applied statistical studies in Medicine (epidemiology and clinical research), Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI
 Graduate in epidemiology and applied biostatistics : CDC Atlanta-IDEA Talloites
 Technical Assistant for 22 years at the Cooperation française as an ophthalmologist in several hospitals in French-speaking African countries.

• on wikipedia
• on the Académie française website (in French)