Odile Jacob

Odile Jacob
EducationHarvard University
Occupation(s)Publisher, cognitive scientist
Known forFounder of Les Éditions Odile Jacob
ParentFrançois Jacob
Awards
  • Grand Prix de l’Information Scientifique (1991)
  • Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year (1995)
  • Grinzane Cavour Prize for Publishing (2004)
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, EPFL (2004)
  • Officier of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (2010)

Odile Jacob is a French publisher who founded Les Éditions Odile Jacob in the middle of the 1980s. She is also a trained scientist, studying the workings of the brain, the mind and thought. She is a member of Le Siècle.