FRANÇOIS HERAN
(Director of Research at INED)
François Héran has held the "Migration and Societies" chair at the Collège de France since January 2018. A demographer and sociologist, he headed the Demographic Surveys and Studies Division of INSEE from 1993 to 1998, before becoming director of the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) from 1999 to 2009. He is the author of national surveys on the choice of spouse, forms of sociability, educational practices, electoral participation, and the dynamics of languages in France. His publications include Parlons immigration en 30 questions (La Documentation française, 2016) and Avec l'immigration: mesurer, débattre, agir (La Découverte, 2017).

MICHEL LALANDE
(Prefect of Hauts de France)
Senior French civil servant, regional prefect placed in a position of detached service as secretary general of the Ministry of the Interior in June 2014. On January 5, 2015, he was appointed préfet hors cadre and assumed the duties of director of the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior. On April 20, 2016, he was appointed Prefect of the North.

HERVE LE BRAS
(Demographer and anthropologist)
Demographer, specialist in social and demographic history, director of studies at the INED (National Institute of Demographic Studies), teacher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), specialist in social history and demography.

DIDIER LESCHI
(Director General of the French Office of Immigration and Integration)
Didier Leschi is a prefect. He was delegated prefect for equal opportunities to the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis between 2013 and 2016. He has been director general of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) since January 2016. A former collaborator of Jean-Pierre Chevènement, he was head of the central office for cults at the Ministry of the Interior. He is a specialist in integration and urban policy issues. He is the author with Régis Debray of La laïcité au quotidien, Folio, Gallimard, 2016; and Misères de l'islam de France, Le cerf, 2017.

MARIELLE DE SARNEZ
(President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly)
She is the first vice-president of the Democratic Movement. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2017 and Secretary General of the European Democratic Party. She was Minister for European Affairs from May to June 2017. Elected last June as a deputy for the ^11th constituency of Paris, she is currently president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly. She is the author of several books on Europe.

MARIA STAVROPOULOU
(Former Director of the Asylum Service of Greece)
Maria Stavropoulou was until February 3, 2018 Director of the Asylum Service of Greece, which is the first state agency specializing in the country of adjudicating claims for international protection. Prior to that, Maria Stavropoulou worked with various United Nations agencies, including the UN refugee agency and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has published numerous articles on refugees and displacement issues. Maria Stavropoulou studied law at Harvard Law School, University College London and the University of Athens School of Law.

BENJAMIN STORA
(President of the Cité de l'Immigration)
French historian, professor at the University of Paris-XIII and Inspector General of National Education since September 2013. His research focuses on the history of Algeria and in particular the Algerian War, and more broadly on the history of the contemporary Maghreb, as well as on the French colonial Empire and immigration in France. He has chaired the Orientation Council of the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration since August 2014.