(Above is the video speech that Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon planned to deliver at CIM's Conference of Commemorating the 110th Anniversary of the Birth of Professor Shiing-Shen Chern)

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician and member of the Academia Europaea. He previously served as the Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), President of the Société Mathématique de France, the European Mathematical Society, and the European Research Council (ERC). He has received the Prix Paul Langevin from the Académie des Sciences de Paris, and the Prix du Rayonnement Français in Mathematical Sciences and Physics. He is also an Honorary Professor of Nankai University.