An organization focused on students and companies, based on three strong identities:
• The Board of Directors
• The students at the heart of our organization
• The companies, farmers and organizations, in close interaction with the school.
Summary
Board of Directors
A Board of Directors, responsible for the institution and focused on the business, the purpose of our teaching and our external operations.
• Chair – Ms. Myriam Cormary (General Director of the Pyrénées-Orientales Chamber of Agriculture)
• Vice-Chair – Mr. Christian Reclus (General Manager at Arterris)
• Secretary – Ms. Geneviève Cazes-Valette (Emeritus Professor of Toulouse Business School and Researcher in marketing and food anthropology)
• Treasurer – Mr. Arnaud Gaset (Managing Partner of La Boulange d’Angeline, Managing Partner of Thémélyo)
• Elected member – Mr. Serge Clamagirand (Former General Manager of the APO Group, retired)
• Ex-officio member – Brother Jérôme Gué, S.J., (Representative of the France Provincial of the Jesuit Order)
• Ex-officio member – Prof. François Moog (Rector of the Institut Catholique de Toulouse)
• Ex-officio member – Mr. Corentin Quemener (President of PURPAN Alumni, Managing Partner at Minuit Capital, Founding Partner at Canopéee Consulting)
• Elected member – Mr. Olivier Dauvers (Journalist and publisher specializing in mass-market retailing)
• Elected member – Ms. Christine Huppert (General Manager of AREA Occitanie)
• Elected member – Ms. Marguerite Timbal (Organic farmer)
• Elected member – Mr. Laurent Teysseyre (HR Manager for the Euralis Agricultural Division)
• Elected member – Mr. Hervé de Warren (Land expert and business/management consultant, former CEO of the Saretec expert appraisal group, retired)
• President of the Student Union 2024/2025 – Mr. Thomas Vermes (Second-year student at PURPAN Engineering School)
• Secretary of the PURPAN Works Council – Mr. Olivier Rodrigues (research professor at PURPAN Engineering School)
Management team
A management team leading an open organization, consisting of a Management Committee and a Steering Committee.
Like the companies for which we train future leaders, the PURPAN management team’s mission is to guide major strategic operational choices while preparing for the future by developing promising projects.
With this in mind, our teams work hard to make our organization as open as possible
Encouraging the emergence of cross-functional teams, fostering creativity and project management are our strengths,
meaning we experience what our engineering students will later discover in the workplace.
- Eric Latgé: General Manager
- Hervé Brustel: Biodiversity Director
- Jean Dayde: Deputy Director of Research and Director of the Lamothe Campus
- Linda Galas: Human Resources Director and Head of the Personal Development Hub
- Amélie Jouault: Director of International Relations
- Didier Kleiber: Director of Teaching Methods and Professional Training
- Guillaume Lavalade: Director of Admissions, Promotion and Communications
- Michaël Mourez: PURPAN Deputy General Manager and Director of Innovation
- Coraline Nanche: Director of Work-Study and Continuing Education
- Céline Peltier: Director of Education
- Viviane Sassus: General Secretary and Chief Financial Officer
- David Simon: Information Systems and Organization Director
- Hervé Soucheyre: General Facilities Officer and CSR Manager
- Vassilia Theodorou: Deputy Director of Toxalim and Head of Science & Society
- Sandrine Merino: Director of Corporate Relations and the Human Career Center
- Frédéric Violleau: Director of Research
- Gervais Wallois: Operations Manager, Lamothe site
- Eric Latgé: General Manager
- Linda Galas: Human Resources Director and Head of the Personal Development Hub
- Amélie Jouault: Director of International Relations
- Didier Kleiber: Director of Teaching Methods and Professional Training
- Sandrine Merino: Director of Corporate Relations and the Human Career Center
- Michaël Mourez: PURPAN Deputy General Manager and Director of Innovation
- Céline Peltier: Director of Education
- Viviane Sassus: General Secretary and Chief Financial Officer
- Frédéric Violleau: Director of Research
The five teaching and research departments
• Plant Sciences and Agronomy
• Animal Sciences and Livestock Systems
• Agri-food and Nutrition Sciences
• Environmental and Digital Sciences
• Human, Economic and Social Sciences
The PURPAN Foundation
More than 100 years ago, the “Amis de Parpan” Association was created to accommodate the real estate bequeathed by Toulouse farmers and to create an agricultural school run by the Jesuit Order and the Institut Catholique de Toulouse.
In 2010, to contribute to the school’s development, the “Amis de Parpan” Association became the “Fondation de PURPAN,” a public interest foundation.
Its mission is to support the development of PURPAN with sponsorship from companies, corporate foundations, institutions and individual donors, to promote its brand image and reputation in order to develop its national and international influence, to help build tomorrow’s agricultural and agri-food sector, and more broadly, to promote PURPAN’s values both within its community and with its partners and society at large.
At the heart of the PURPAN Group’s ecosystem, the PURPAN Foundation strives to unite a community of committed stakeholders with common causes such as a passion for the Earth and sustainable development, a drive for knowledge and research, a social and human project, and teaching methods for success based on Ignatian values linked to experimentation.