Research Institute for Development
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The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, or Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), is a French science and technology establishment under the joint supervision of the French Ministries of Higher Education and Research and Foreign Affairs. It operates internationally from its headquarters in Marseille, and two metropolitan centres of Montpellier and Bondy.
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Formation | 1937; 87 years ago (1937) |
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Type | Governmental organisation |
Purpose | Development of southern countries |
Headquarters | Marseille |
Official language | French |
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer | Valérie Verdier |
Main organ | Direction générale déléguée à la Science |
Budget | €239 million |
Staff | 2,354 |
Website | en |
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It was created as the Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre-mer or ORSTOM, (Overseas Scientific and Technical Research Office) in 1943.[1]