Governance

Christine Neau-Leduc

President

Christine Neau-Leduc has been a professor of private law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne since 2012. She holds a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in private law (1991) from the University of Montpellier and a doctorate (1998) from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. She was awarded her accreditation to direct research (HDR) in 2002 and her university agrégation in private law and criminal sciences in 2003.

Professor Neau-Leduc is a teacher at the Ėcole de droit de la Sorbonne (EDS) and a member of the Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS), specialising in employment law, collective bargaining, collective representation and CSR.

She is highly engaged in the EDS, where she is director of the private law department of the doctoral law school, head of the master's degree in corporate law and co-director of the Sorbonne's social law centre. Between 2016 and 2019, she was Senior Vice-President in charge of Institutional Affairs on the University’s Board of Directors.

Elected President of  Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in January 2021, she began her second term at the head of the institution in April 2025.