France’s hospitals and healthcare organizations are facing a unique convergence of pressures. Digital transformation is accelerating across clinical, research, and administrative systems, while cyber threats continue to target healthcare institutions for their operational sensitivity and data value. From large public hospital networks to private healthcare groups and life sciences organizations, cybersecurity leaders are tasked with protecting patient safety, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining resilience in environments where downtime is not an option. The following cybersecurity leaders are shaping how security is governed, operated, and embedded across France’s healthcare ecosystem.
Didier Perret — Chief Information Security Officer, AP-HP, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris
Didier Perret leads cybersecurity for Europe’s largest hospital network, overseeing information security governance across a vast and highly complex healthcare environment. His scope covers information risk management, data protection compliance, and the development and operation of security programs at scale, including security operations centers. He manages a large multidisciplinary security team and ensures that security is integrated directly into healthcare projects, identity and access management, crisis response, and operational security. With AP-HP supporting tens of thousands of staff, hospitals, servers, and applications, his work focuses on maintaining resilience and continuity while meeting strict regulatory and healthcare-specific requirements.
Matthieu Meyer — Chief Information Security Officer, Fondation de la maison du Diaconat de Mulhouse
Matthieu Meyer brings a strong project-driven and patient-centric approach to cybersecurity leadership. After years managing large-scale IT and application portfolios within the healthcare sector, he now oversees information security for a multi-site healthcare foundation. His role combines digital transformation, security governance, and operational delivery, ensuring that cybersecurity initiatives directly support caregivers and patient care. He is known for structuring long-term transformation programs while maintaining hands-on oversight of systems, networks, and clinical applications.
Florian Rigaud — Chief Information Security Officer, GBNA Santé
Florian Rigaud is a cybersecurity leader with deep technical roots in systems, networks, and infrastructure security. His transition into leadership roles has been guided by a pragmatic and collaborative mindset, focused on structuring security programs that are both operationally effective and compliant with healthcare regulations. Certified across multiple security standards, he emphasizes risk management, regulatory alignment, and team enablement, helping healthcare organizations strengthen their security posture while maintaining operational efficiency.
Emilie Faugeron — Chief Information Security Officer, Pierre Fabre Group
Emilie Faugeron leads cybersecurity for a major healthcare and life sciences group, bringing extensive experience in security risk assessment, audits, and secure-by-design program management. Her background includes years of work on security evaluations, compliance frameworks, and secure technology platforms. She has played a key role in aligning cybersecurity with industrial and pharmaceutical environments, ensuring that security controls support innovation while meeting strict regulatory and quality requirements.
Jean-Baptiste Cohet — Chief Information Security Officer, GHR Mulhouse Sud-Alsace
Jean-Baptiste Cohet combines hands-on cyber defense experience with strategic security leadership in the hospital environment. His background includes cybersecurity consulting, threat intelligence, incident response, and security operations leadership across large organizations. In his current role, he focuses on structuring and strengthening hospital cybersecurity posture, integrating risk management, detection, and response capabilities while supporting healthcare operations that demand high availability and trust.
Didier Lorenzi — Director of Cybersecurity, GE Healthcare
Didier Lorenzi operates at the intersection of healthcare technology, industrial systems, and cybersecurity governance. His role focuses on cybersecurity program management, regulatory alignment, and the secure deployment of healthcare technologies at scale. With a background spanning IT governance, infrastructure security, and large transformation programs, he contributes to strengthening cybersecurity across healthcare products and services that are critical to clinical operations worldwide.
Pierre Bedel — Group Chief Information Security Officer, ELSAN
Pierre Bedel oversees cybersecurity for one of France’s largest private hospital groups. His experience spans governance, risk management, awareness programs, disaster recovery, and large-scale transformation initiatives. Having previously led cybersecurity in automotive, luxury, and consulting environments, he brings a broad perspective to healthcare security, focusing on building structured, scalable security programs that support growth while maintaining patient safety and regulatory compliance.
Emmanuel Kipoyi — Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Institut Curie
Emmanuel Kipoyi plays a key role in defining and executing cybersecurity strategy within a leading oncology and research institution. His responsibilities include risk analysis, regulatory compliance, incident management, and the integration of security into IT and research projects. With a strong emphasis on governance, collaboration, and awareness, he helps ensure that cybersecurity supports both clinical excellence and scientific innovation.
Securing France’s Healthcare Systems at Scale
Healthcare cybersecurity in France demands leadership that blends technical depth, regulatory expertise, and operational resilience. These leaders demonstrate how security can be embedded into hospitals, research institutions, and healthcare services without disrupting patient care. As threats continue to evolve and healthcare systems become more interconnected, their work will remain critical to safeguarding trust, safety, and continuity across France’s healthcare sector.