Since 27 July 2020, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is President ad interim of the European Research Council. He was ERC President between 2014 and 2019. In 2013, he became Directeur de recherche emeritus at CNRS. Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette (1994-2013), he also taught Mathematics at École polytechnique (1986-2012).

A graduate from École Polytechnique (class 1966), he holds a PhD in Mathematical Sciences from University Paris VII (1974). His research concerns differential geometry, global analysis and mathematical aspects of theoretical physics. He was president of the European Mathematical Society (1995-1998). Member of the Academia Europaea, he holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from Keio University and Nankai University.