Icsi, a team on a human scale

| His philosophy |

Safety is a powerful driver that can improve the overall performance of an organization.

Ivan Boissières

Director General

Ivan Boissières holds a PhD in the sociology of organizations, and is an affiliate professor at the ESCP Business School. He is also the Managing Director of the Institute. Ivan is committed to making the Icsi a platform that creates links between members with very different backgrounds and realities. Everyone is invited to contribute to building the edifice of a better safety culture. Convinced that the diversity of points of view of its members is an asset, Ivan sees Icsi as a think tank, an ideas’ laboratory that is enriched by real-life experience, and the work of its discussion groups and the Foncsi. This approach creates a source of innovation that is expected to enrich experiments in the field, and build the safety of the future.

| His philosophy |

Spending time in the field is crucial! Without it, there can be no real change in safety practices and culture.

Jean-Marc Vaugier

Deputy Director

 Both passionate and practical, Jean-Marc Vaugier has been Director of Development since January 2020. He came to Icsi from the Total group, where he travelled to all four corners of the world. As production manager, he gained in-depth experience of life in the field, then held cross-cutting positions, such as refinery safety manager, before leading projects to change the safety culture. He brought his rich experience and operational outlook with him to Icsi. What drives him? Learning. And there can be no doubt that there is plenty to learn from the wide diversity of Icsi’s partners – starting with the industry, but extending to local authorities, researchers, associations and universities.

| Her philosophy |

No one person holds the keys to safety

Dounia Tazi

Director of Operations

Dounia Tazi is Icsi’s Director of Operations. Bringing together expertise and agility, she supports many of Icsi’s diverse members in developing programs to improve their safety culture, often internationally. And nothing makes her happier than to “move the lines”, waking people up to new ideas that will bring about lasting change in risk management. For Dounia, Icsi offers a vast field of opportunity: one day she is in a management committee meeting, the next day she can be working with passionate researchers, and the day after that she’ll be in the field with operators. All of these diverse interactions are valuable, because safety cannot be decreed, it must be co-constructed.

| His philosophy |

What you have to be prepared for is to be unprepared

Jean Pariès

Scientific Director

Jean Pariès has been Scientific Director of the Icsi and Foncsi since January 2020. A civil aviation engineer, he spent 15 years at the DGAC, where he discovered the importance of human factors and the wealth of experience of international expert groups. He then took off to the Accident Investigation Office, where he met Jim Reason, Ron Westrum, René Amalberti, David Woods, Erik Hollnagel, Sydney Dekker, etc. Co-founder and director of Dédale for 20 years, Associate Research Director at the CNRS for 4 years, his work is focused on safety in a complex world – from nuclear to medical – and he has presided over the Resilience Engineering Association for 6 years. Now a part of the team at Icsi and Foncsi, he continues to passionately question the resilience of organizations that have to operate in an unpredictable world. His playground is expanding to include communities, associations and trade unions.