Professor Jean-Yves Moisseron is an internationally renowned socioeconomist, geopolitical strategist, and pioneering scholar in the science of sustainable development for health and well-being. He currently serves as Honorary President of the International Academy of Food and Phytomedicine (IAFPH). He has long served as Research Director at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), and holds a core research leadership role at the Center for Population and Development Studies within UMR 624 CESSMA at Université Paris Cité. Professor Moisseron has made outstanding contributions over several decades to the governance of international research institutions and global public diplomacy. From 2002 to 2007, he served as IRD Representative in Egypt on behalf of France. From 2013 to 2021, he was appointed Chair of the Scientific Council of the “Pôle Maghreb” under the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. He also served as Deputy Director of the renowned International College of Territorial Sciences. In elite higher education, he has taught macroeconomics, statistics, and geopolitics for many years at leading European institutions, including Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. As an experienced doctoral supervisor, he has successfully trained and supervised 11 high-level doctoral students.
As an interdisciplinary strategic scientist who bridges macro-geoeconomics and global life sciences, Professor Moisseron’s research is structured around three core pillars: the socioeconomic and geopolitical evolution of the Arab world, with long-standing work on Mediterranean economic partnerships, governance models, and post-Arab Spring social reconstruction; sustainable development science, with a particular focus on the circular economy and the high-value development and utilization of plant resources; and ecological sustainability within the global strategic framework of One Health. Drawing on his profound foundation in the humanities and social sciences and his broad international vision, he has creatively extended his research to the frontier of health and well-being, systematically advancing cross-cultural studies on the modernization of traditional medicine and medicinal plants. Professor Moisseron has conducted in-depth comparative research on the diverse values of African traditional medicine, Chinese medicine, and Islamic medicine, becoming an important intellectual leader in promoting the integration of traditional medicine into modern national healthcare systems and global health defense frameworks.
In international academic publication and landmark scholarly works, Professor Moisseron has achieved remarkable accomplishments and has continuously led the reshaping of Western academic understanding of Eastern and Islamic traditional medicine. Over the years, he has been repeatedly invited by the distinguished French academic publisher ESKA to publish a series of major scholarly monographs of substantial academic significance. His representative works include Médecines traditionnelles chinoise et musulmane: correspondances et similitudes, published in 2024, which he authored independently. This book systematically decodes, within a Western theoretical framework, the philosophical and pharmacological resonances among traditional medical systems across China, West Africa, and the Eurasian continent. He subsequently edited Médecines traditionnelles, savoirs, recherches et défis contemporains, published in 2025. These major academic works successfully bridge the divide in cross-civilizational medicine and establish an important theoretical milestone for the joint development of global medicinal plant resources and the implementation of One Health policy.