Our Team
Our staff is at your service every day to help make your experience at the Alliance française de Paris unforgettable!
Using our expertise and experience, our goal is to provide you with a high level of service regarding our six main areas of expertise.
Our team is composed of about 70 teachers and pedagogical/cultural experts, as well as 30 administrative managers.
Our permanent teachers, who have degrees and are specialized in teaching and learning French as a foreign language, are very closely involved in the reflections and innovations in the field of FLE and benefit from our continuing education plan. Several of them collaborate, among other things, in the design of innovative methods and tools for learning the French language with the largest publishers.
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Franck DESROCHES
GENERAL MANAGER
Anne-Marie ROUSSEAU
DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER
Flore BENARD
HEAD OF CULTURE AND LIBRARY DEPARTMENT
Anne-Lyse DUBOIS
HEAD OF EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, AND INNOVATION
Aurélie LEMAIRE
HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCES, GENERAL SERVICES AND IT
Dominique AUMONT
HEAD OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
Members of the Board
BOARD
President:
M. Xavier NORTH
Inspecteur général honoraire des Affaires culturelles
Vice-Presidents:
Mme Catherine EMPRIN-CHARRIER
General Manager – Agence BETC
M. François-Xavier LABARRAQUE
Conseiller en stratégie et en organisation pour les entreprises
General Treasurer:
M. Antoine DE BEAUVOIR
Directeur Integration and Separation Services – Deloitte
OBSERVATEURS
M. Yves PORTELLI
Directeur général - OPCO Atlas
M. Marc BOUDIN
Délégué Général auprès de l'Union des Français de l'Etranger - Paris
Mme Sylvie MARCÉ
General manager of Humensis, President of Editeurs d'Education, member of the SNE Board
ADMINISTRATEURS
M. Laurent BURIN DES ROZIERS
Diplomate
M. Guillaume DERVIEUX
Vice President and General Manager of the Libella Group
M. Vincenzo ESPOSITO VINZI
General Manager – Groupe ESSEC
M. Stève GENTILI
Président du conseil de surveillance du groupe BPCE, de la BRED-Banque Populaire, de la Banque internationale du commerce (BIC) et du Forum Francophone des Affaires (FFA)
Mme Elisabeth GUIMBRETIÈRE
Professeure émérite des universités, spécialiste de phonétique et l’oral en français langue étrangère
M. Ivan KABACOFF
Head of Institutional Relations and with la Francophonie - TV5MONDE
Mme Brigitte MAURY
Retraitée ancienne directrice d'Alliance française et experte en politiques linguistiques auprès du MEAE
M. Philippe ROBINET
Directeur général - Calmann-Lévy
M. Yohann TURBET-DELOFF
Actuel directeur de la culture de la Ville de St Denis
Mme Hélène VALADE
Director of Environmental Development – LVMH
M. Yves BIGOT
President of the Fondation des Alliances Française (ex officio member without voting rights)
General Manager - TV5MONDE
WOMEN/MEN EQUALITY INDEX (as of February, 27 2026)
Overall rating: not calculable
Pay gap indicator: not calculable
Rate of increase indicator: 15/35
Indicator percentage of employees receiving a raise on return from maternity leave: not calculable
High pay indicator: 5/10