Frédéric Sgard is project administrator at the Global Science Forum of the OECD, where he manages selected Forum activities. He has been involved in many of the Forum’s projects on research infrastructures. His current portfolio includes work on “mobilising science in the time of crisis” and a new project on “Very Large International Research infrastructures”. Frédéric Sgard acts as an independent expert for various European research infrastructure projects. Prior to joining the OECD, he worked as a senior scientist in a pharmaceutical company until the end of 2002, on the discovery of new pharmacological targets. Trained as a molecular biologist, he studied Molecular Genetics at the University of Paris-Saclay (France), and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Reading, UK, in 1994.

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