Laurent Hérault

Laurent Hérault is the CEO of the Clinatec Endowment Fund, a French philanthropic organization and a biomedical research center focused on innovative, non-drug, and physics-based therapeutic solutions for patients suffering from severe diseases and disabilities.
Laurent Hérault has had a distinguished career at CEA, France. He joined CEA-Leti in 1991, leading AI and optimization activities, and from 1998, he directed the telecom-cybersecurity department. Recognized as a CEA Fellow in 2008, he was appointed Vice President in charge of European affairs in 2011, contributing to the European Commission’s digital technology strategies and overseeing more than 120 projects, including those at Clinatec. He also serves as an expert advisor to the European Commission.
Laurent Hérault has filed 9 patents and authored or co-authored more than 50 publications in international journals and conferences. He has contributed to 5 books, including serving as an editor for one, and is a member of the program and organizing committees of many international conferences. In 2022, he chaired and organized the World Electronics Forum in France, a global think tank that unites federations of the electronics and digital industries from around the world (USA, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East). Laurent Hérault received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in control engineering in 1987, followed by a PhD in computer science in 1991. He was awarded the “Young Researcher Prize” by the City of Grenoble, France, in 1990 for his doctoral thesis work on artificial intelligence and neurocomputing to address intractable combinatorial optimization problems.