Jennifer Heurley appointed Vice President for International Relations at PSL
On June 30, 2022, the PSL Board of Directors confirmed the appointment of Jennifer Heurley, lecturer in political geography at Aix-Marseille University, to the position of Vice President of International Relations. She took up her position on September 1.
Jennifer Heurley holds a doctorate in geography and is a lecturer in political geography at Aix-Marseille University.
In 2006, she joined the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Europe policy officer in the sub-section of archaeology and human and social sciences, where she contributed to the structuring, with the CNRS, of the network of Mixed Units of French Research Institutes abroad (UMIFRE). Three years later, she became head of the research and scientific exchanges division, in charge of managing cooperation tools and the network of scientific cooperation advisors and attachés. In collaboration with the various bodies, first and foremost the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, she set up new evaluation standards to improve the level of scientific cooperation for young researchers and actively contributed to the formalization of the French strategy for scientific diplomacy and its application into an operational roadmap. In 2014, after having been appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Research in the Higher Education and Research Department, she joined the International Department of Institut Pasteur, where for 8 years she supported the development of the international network of Pasteur Institutes, with a particular focus on the complete overhaul of its governance, which came into effect in June 2021.
Jennifer Heurley replaces Emilienne Baneth, a Professor at the University of Rennes 2, who was be PSL's Vice President for International Relations from 2020 to 2022.