François Taddei

François Taddei (born 5 August 1967) is a French geneticist and education researcher. Trained as an engineer, he worked on the evolutionary and medical genetics of bacteria before turning to education. In 2006 he co-founded the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI) with Ariel Lindner. The centre was renamed the Learning Planet Institute in 2021, and Taddei is its president. He has written or co-written several reports on the future of education, some of them commissioned by the French government.