Michel Jaccard is a physicist (Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Lausanne) who has worked as R&D project leader at Nestlé and as a member of the direction of a large food corporation before joining the direction of the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1995. In this role, he has been director of academic affairs of EPFL; head of communications for the Board of Polytechnic Institutes (Zurich); and head of quality at the EPFL. In 2009, he was named director of International Affairs and Accreditation of the EPFL, and he is also Senior lecturer at the EPFL College of Management.
