François Ansermet is a Swiss Lacanian psychoanalyst. He was appointed Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Geneva (unige) and Lausanne (unil), after having first held the posts of a full professor of child psychiatry, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, and the Head of the University Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He worked as a full professor of Child Psychiatry at the unige, while remaining a full professor ad personam at unil and becoming the Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as the Director of the University Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine. He has the role of a project leader at the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Synapsy. He is a member of the New Lacanian School, and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He has been a member of the French National Ethics Committee (CCNE) in Paris since 2003. He is the first non-French expert to serve on the French ethics advisory board where he provides advisory opinions on research on embryos, surrogate motherhood, end-of-life concerns, donating organs. He was appointed a rapporteur in charge of reporting on Article 126 on medically assisted reproduction, Article 129 on bioethics, Article 132 on sex development (DSD), and Article 134 on adoption. He is currently responsible for the article on ethics in psychiatry of the French law on bioethics.
He is the author and co-author of numerous books and publications, including: The Art of Making Children: The New World of Assisted Reproductive Technology (2018), Memory Reconsolidation (2013), Biology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity, Experience and the Unconscious (2018) etc.
