Régis Bordet, born in 1964 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, is a French doctor and academic, author, actor and theatre director. He has been President of the University of Lille since December 2021.
In 1998,[4] he was appointed Senior Lecturer at the University of Lille; in 2001,[5] he was appointed Professor of Medical Pharmacology at the University of Lille and a hospital practitioner at Lille University Hospital.[6]
Since 2010, he has been head of the Lille medical pharmacology department and head of the regional pharmacovigilance and addictovigilance centres.[7] Between 2015 and 2019, he will head the INSERM U1171 unit in Lille.[8]
In 2012, he was appointed vice-president of research at the University of Lille, before taking over as director general of the I-Site Foundation from 2018 to 2022.[9]
President of the University of Lille
In December 2021, he succeeded Jean-Christophe Camart as head of the University of Lille for 4 years.[10]
In April 2024, faced with the risk of a public order disturbance, he was forced to cancel a conference by Jean-Luc Mélenchon scheduled to take place at the university, which sparked debate.[11]