
With an engineering degree from INSA Lyon (1998), Sylvain Ferrari began his career in the United States as deputy scientific attaché at the French Embassy, before being recruited by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to co-found the MIT-France program. Returning to France in 2005, he was deputy director of external relations at École polytechnique, then director of international relations and corporate partnerships at ENSTA Paris. He then moved to Beijing, where he spent five years as Director of ParisTech in China. He returns to France in 2019 to become Deputy Director of ENSTA Paris, a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. In September 2023, Sylvain Ferrari was appointed Deputy to the Administrator General of the CNAM, in charge of development, partnerships and external relations.