Founding members
Healthcare professionals and others came together to found La Chaîne de l’Espoir. They created an ambitious project that we are keeping alive today.
Our founding members
Savine Baudet, doctor
Alain Carpentier, heart surgeon
Éric Cheysson, vascular surgeon
Michel Cymès, ENT specialist
Michèle Delarrat, anaesthetist
Alain Deloche, heart surgeon
Yves Desgrippes, orthopaedic surgeon
Jean-François Elberg, surgeon
Didier Frémont, cardiologist
Bernard Granjon, doctor
Roland Guénoun, communications consultant
Bernard Kouchner, doctor – founder of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans frontiers) and Doctors of the World (Médecins du Monde) and a former Minister for Foreign Affairs
Jean-Claude Labbé, senior reporter
Jean-Claude Lafeuillade, engineer
Philippe Luxereau, cardiologist
Françoise Monard, former Director of Communications at BNP Paribas
Pierre Pradier, doctor
Claude Prigent, cardiologist
Jacqueline Rougé, biologist
François-Xavier Roux, neurosurgeon
Françoise Sussman, company director
Marc Tessier, former chairman of France Télévision
Philippe Valenti, hand surgeon