Philippe Henry

A graduate of the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Philippe Henry holds a master's degree in economic and social administration. For more than 30 years, his career has been in the field of public scientific research within various research institutes and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

Philippe Henry began his career in 1990 in the HR department of ORSTOM (now IRD), where he was in charge of monitoring the payroll of the establishment and producing the first social balance sheets. He first moved to the Ministry of Research in 1993, where he first managed the "ordinary expenses" of the civil research and development budget, before monitoring the overall budgets of several research institutes.

In the early 2000s, he joined INRA as deputy director of financing and general administration, and then became director of the ANR support unit, in charge of managing several of the Agency's national programs in the fields of food and sustainable development.

In 2008, Philippe Henry joined Inria at the creation of the Inria research center in Saclay Ile-de-France, where he held the position of delegate for the administration of the center until 2013, a position he also held later at the Sophia Antipolis - Mediterranean center. In 2020, he became Secretary General of the Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique center.

Since April 2022, Philippe HENRY has been the director of a new structure reporting to the Director General of Administration at Inria: the Organization and Transformation Department, whose activities are fully in line with the major thrust of Inria's 2019-2023 Contract of Objectives and Performance, entitled "Building a smooth and efficient organization". The central aim of this new department is to set up a long-term approach to improving the quality of the service provided to research and innovation, and the working conditions of the staff involved. It is in charge of the Institute's quality and continuous improvement processes, with the aim of achieving greater efficiency in the implementation of our missions, eliminating silo-based approaches and keeping things simple.