Agnes Agid

PiLeJe

Director of Communications and Public Affairs

Biography

Agnès Agid is Director of Communications and Public Affairs at PiLeJe, an independent French laboratory and a pioneer in micronutrition and prevention, led by a woman, where women make up 71% of its 750 employees. She represents PiLeJe in the Women's Forum G7 Initiative. Her conviction: too many women's symptoms are still brushed off with “it's hormonal” or “it's your age”. Behind those words, experienced women slow down, step back or leave the company. For business leaders, this is not a matter of comfort: it is a matter of performance. PiLeJe acts on this, first for its own teams – 94/100 on the French gender equality index, with a near-zero pay gap – and then beyond its walls, by training healthcare professionals in women's health. With Femtech France, PiLeJe is launching a European challenge on perimenopause and menopause as part of the Women's Health Europe Forum: an issue affecting millions of women aged 45 to 65, just as they step into leadership roles. A Sciences Po Paris graduate, she has spent more than twenty years bringing science, business and public authorities together to advance health innovation. In 2009 she created the Rencontres Internationales de Recherche under the aegis of the French Presidency, and later founded S3 ODEON, a forum for dialogue between health, science and society. Before joining PiLeJe, she advised major international pharmaceutical groups. A Knight of the Legion of Honour, she fights health misinformation and mentors young health entrepreneurs.