Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, a French mathematician, is a Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He has directed the Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques since 1994 and is also professor at the Ecole Polytechnique. He was President of the Societe Mathematique de France from 1990 to 1992 and of the European Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1998.

A differential geometer by training, he has since pursued his interest in mathematical aspects of theoretical physics, from Yang-Mills theory to general relativity.

Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a Member of the Academia Europaea and a foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He received the Rayonnement Francais Prize in Mathematical Sciences and Physics under the auspices of the Academie des Sciences de Paris in 1997.