Patrons: Joëlle Barral (Year of Entry: 2001)

Joëlle Barral joined the institution in 2001 and is now the Software Engineering Manager at Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences), a research organization owned by Alphabet, devoted to the study of life sciences. Taking concrete action as a sponsor to promote École Polytechnique’s development, she decided to join the board of the Friends of École Polytechnique, a sister organization of the École Polytechnique Foundation that expands its activity in the United States.