Members of the Board of Directors

Bruno LAURIOUX

Chair

Professor of Mediaeval History and the History of Food, Tours University

Jean-Pierre Corbeau

Deputy Chair
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Tours University

Antoine Favron

Treasurer
Lecturer

Thibaut Boulay

Secretary
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Tours University

Jean-Claude Bonnaud

Publication Director and Editor of the Le Vin Ligérien journal

Christophe Bressac

Senior Lecturer in Biology of Organisms, Agrosciences, Tours University

Gérald Chaix

Historian, former Chief Education Officer Chair of the Institut Européen en Sciences des Religions (European Institute of Religious Sciences)

Marie-Christine Clément

Director of the Grand Hôtel du Lion d’Or in Romorantin-Lanthenay

Christophe Degruelle

Chief Executive of the Communauté d'Agglomération de Blois-Agglopolys (Blois-Agglopolys Urban Community)

Emmanuel Hervé

Managing Director of the Hervé Thermique Group

Chair of the “Tours, Cité Internationale de la gastronomie en Val de Loire” Association

Chiara Lastraioli

Professor of Romance Languages and Literature
Director of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Val de Loire (Val de Loire Humanities Center)

Jean-Marie Panazol

Inspector-General for the French Education authorities
Director of the ESENESR

Florent Quellier

Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Tours University
holder of the CNRS chair “Histoire de l'alimentation des mondes modernes” (history of food in the modern world)

Maurice Sartre

Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, Tours University
member of the Institut Universitaire de France (French university institute)

Xavier Terrien

Lecturer, Tours University

Philippe Vendrix

Vice-Chancellor of Tours University