In recognition of his vision, strong sense of responsibility, and enlightened concern for encouraging innovative scientific initiatives; of his wise counsel and devoted service as a member of the International and Executive Boards of the Weizmann Institute of Science; and of his abiding commitment and enthusiastic partnership with the Weizmann Institute over time.
A citizen of France, Pascal Olivier Mantoux is the grandson of Charles Mantoux, a physician who developed the serological test for tuberculosis known worldwide as the Mantoux test. He graduated mechanical engineering and business administration from Paris colleges and later earned an executive degree from the Harvard Business School.
Over the past 35 years, he has held various senior management positions in North and Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as Continental and Eastern Europe, serving global industrial corporations, such as Westinghouse Air Brake, Tenneco, J.I. Case and Poclain. His latest position was CEO of DAF Trucks’ French operations.
While retired from the corporate world, he has initiated and operates his own real estate and land management company outside of Paris. He and his wife, Ilana, split their time between France and Israel.
The enthusiasm, acuity, and curiosity he has demonstrated throughout his long and successful business career characterize his connection with the Weizmann Institute of Science. Together with Ilana, he has undertaken a philanthropic commitment to discovery in biomedical research, running the gamut from supporting the stem-cell research of Dr. Jacob Hanna in the Department of Molecular Genetics, through funding scientific collaborations between the Institute and the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, and establishing the Ilana and Pascal Mantoux Institute for Bioinformatics. The latter is one of the four pillars of the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, an initiative poised to impact Israeli biomedical innovation for years to come.
Outside the Weizmann Institute, the couple has also established a cancer outpatient clinic and a heart and chest intensive care unit at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
Mantoux is a member of the Weizmann Institute’s International and Executive Boards, and serves on several management committees.
The couple has five children and ten grandchildren.