The President of the University is elected by an absolute majority by the faculty and staff elected members of the Board of Directors (fr. Conseil d’Administration or CA). Elected for a four-year term (renewable once), the president is supported by a team of appointed vice-presidents.
The University has 13 Faculties and Institutes, which bring together academic departments and research laboratories. They have their own decision-making body, the Faculty Council. See the list of the Faculties and Institutes here.
- President
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President of the University Lumière Lyon 2 since 5 February 2021
President of the university since 2016, Nathalie Dompnier was elected for a second term in February 2021.
A professor of economics and social sciences from 2000 to 2002, she became a temporary teaching and research associate at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble in 2002, where she defended her thesis entitled: "La clef des urnes. The socio-historical construction of electoral deviance in France since 1848".
In 2003, she was recruited as a lecturer in political science at the University of Avignon and the Pays de Vaucluse. There, she conducts research in the framework of the multidisciplinary laboratory Biens, normes, contrat (Goods, norms, contracts), particularly in the field of the social and cooperative economics.
In 2007, Nathalie Dompnier became a professor at the Université Lumière Lyon 2. Working in the Triangle laboratory (UMR 5206), she continued her research on electoral practices and voting systems, as well as on political values and family values. - Vice-Presidents
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Jim WALKER
Vice President
of International Relations
vp-ri@univ-lyon2.frMarie-Karine LHOMMÉ
Vice-President in charge of Degree Programs
vp-formation@univ-lyon2.frIsabelle VON BUELTZINGSLOEWEN
Vice-President of Research, Doctoral Studies and Open Sciences
vp-recherche@univ-lyon2.frWilly BEAUVALLET
Vice-President of Staff, Social Action and Budgetary Resources
vp-personnels@univ-lyon2.fr and vp-budget@univ-lyon2.frJulia BONACCORSI
Vice President of Science and Society
vp-sciencesociete@univ-lyon2.frErica DUMONT
Vice President of Digital Uses
vp-numerique@univ-lyon2.frChristine MORIN-MESSABEL
Vice President of Equality and Anti-Discrimination
vp-egalite@univ-lyon2.frNicolas NAVARRO
Vice President for Culture
vp-culture-vieetu@univ-lyon2.frBertrand RAVON
Vice President for Lifelong Learning
vp-ftlv@univ-lyon2.frLaurence ROCHER
Vice President Ecological Transition and Campus
vp-campustransition@univ-lyon2.frSébastien SOULEZ
Vice président Apprenticeship
vp-alternance@univ-lyon2.fr - Project
managers -
- Clotilde CASTAGNÉ-VÉZIES, Project Manager for Masters in Teaching, Education and Training (MEEF);
- Gilles GESQUIÈRE, project manager for scientific strategy on urban issues;
- Tanguy LEROY, project manager for the preparation and implementation of the new training offer - licenses and masters;
- Claire POLO, in charge of educational support for L1 students;
- Marie PRÉAU, project manager for scientific strategy in the field of health. - Student
Vice-Presidents -
In charge of promoting student participation, VPEs work in collaboration with the administrative services and act as a liaison between students, trade unions, associations and the administration. They also represent students when dealing with various partners involved in student life.
Soon to be elected... - Advisors
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THE UNIVERSITY'S ETHICS ADVISOR.
Since 4 February 2019, Catherine Schmitter, lecturer in public law at the Julie-Victoire Daubié Faculty of Law, has been the University's ethics advisor.
SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY ADVISOR (RIS)
Since 24 August 2020, Françoise Lantheaume has been the University's scientific integrity advisor. A university professor in education and training sciences and a researcher at the ECP laboratory (Education, Cultures, Policies), she studies the teaching of scientifically and politically controversial issues (colonisation, religions), the work of teachers and its evolution, as well as the process of translating educational reforms to the classroom.
MISSION "EQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN
In accordance with article L712-2 of the Education Code and the University's internal regulations (see extract below), the Board of Directors of 5 July 2019 established a gender equality mission within the University.
SECULARISM ADVISOR
Since the beginning of April 2022, Samia Langar has been the secularism referent of the University. Doctor in education sciences, she is a lecturer at the Institute of Sciences and Education and Training Practices (ISPEF) and a member of the Education, Cultures, Policies laboratory.
CONNECTED CAMPUS ADVISOR
Associate Professor of Modern Letters (PRAG) at the Institute of Communication (ICOM) since 2013, and Doctor of French Language and Literature, Florence Bonifay provides courses related to the mastery of writing and speaking for students for the ICOM License (methodology, professional writing practices, etc.) and literature courses for the Literature department. She is monitoring connected campus projects in connection with the West Rhodanian urban community on the one hand and the Saône-Beaujolais Community of Communes on the other, open since the start of the school year in September 2021.
