Dr. Jean-François Corty
President, Médicins du MondeDoctor, graduate in political science and anthropology, engaged for nearly twenty years in humanitarian and medico-social action in France and internationally.
Between 2000 and 2008, he held several positions at Doctors Without Borders France at headquarters and in the field, in Eritrea, Liberia, Afghanistan, Niger and Iran.
He became Director of Operations for Doctors of the World France from 2009 until 2018. In 2020, he became involved in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic as medical coordinator of a Covid center for people in precarious situations run by the Aurore association and the City of Paris, as well as a Covid vaccination center.
In 2023, he became Vice President and then President of Doctors of the World on June 8, 2024. Alongside his community involvement, he conducts research on humanitarian issues and health, social, and environmental inequalities. He teaches at the Toulouse Institute of Political Studies and the University of Paris I La Sorbonne. He is also an associate researcher at IRIS (Institute of International and Strategic Relations) and ICM (Institute of Convergences Migrations). He is the author of documentary films and several books, the latest of which is “Geopolitics of Humanitarian Action” published by Eyrolles in 2025.