General Director/CEO of the Memorial de Caen since October 2005
Activities
- General Director/CEO of the Memorial de Caen, of the circular cinema “Arromanches 360°” and of the “Civilians in wartime” Memorial in Falaise
- Consultant for the creation of the “Civilians in wartime” Memorial museum in Falaise, France
- Author and curator of several international exhibitions including “Where were you on September 11, 2001?” and “Survival: the children of the Holocaust”
- Former Director of the Historial of the Great War in Peronne, France
Fields of Research
- Co-founding member of the interdisciplinary program “Memory and Memorialization”: CNRS (French National Scientific Research Council), Memorial de Caen, 9/11 Foundation, New York University, which led to equipments of excellence
- Elected member of the Scientific Council of the Yahad – In Unum Foundation, of the Allied Museum in Berlin, of the Institute for Memory of Contemporary Editions and of the Memorial de Caen
- Consultant for the Basse-Normandie Region regarding the inscription of the Landing beaches on the World Heritage for Humanity list.
