Governance and Missions

Governance

CASD is a public interest group (consortium) bringing together INSEE, GENES, CNRS, École Polytechnique and HEC Paris created by interministerial decree of 29 December 2018.

The main purpose of the consortium is to organize and implement secure access services for confidential data for non-profit research, study, evaluation or innovation, activities described as “research services”, mainly public. Its mission is also to promote the technology developed to secure access to confidential data (public and private).

The main orientations are decided by the General Assembly of members composed of :

– Catherine GAUDY (Director General of GENES), President of the General Assembly

– Jean-Luc TAVERNIER, substitute: Olivier BIAU (INSEE)

– Fabrice BOUDJAABA, substitute: Patrick PINTUS (CNRS)

– Kees VAN DER BEEK, substitute: Guillaume HOLLARD (École Polytechnique)

– Christophe PERIGNON, substitute: Marc VANHUELE (HEC Paris)

– – Olivier GARNIER, substitute: Olivier DE BANDT (Banque de France)

The CEO is Kamel GADOUCHE. He represents the GIP in all acts of civil life.

Three advisory committees are being set up:

As part of its research service missions, the group is responsible for:

• to implement secure services for access to confidential data;
• to participate in data matching, anonymization and database development operations;
• to participate in the documentation and archiving of confidential data;
• participate in the meetings of the Committee on Statistical Confidentiality and collaborate with its secretariat;
• to animate the user community around confidential data;
• to contribute to the certification of research results based on confidential data;
• to participate in the development of access to confidential data at national, European and international level in conjunction with other data availability mechanisms;

As part of its valuation missions, the group is responsible for the following, particularly in the competitive sector:

• to provide advice and expertise in its fields of competence to the State and other French or foreign entities;
• to provide security resources or services in its areas of competence;
• to make available the technology for securing access to data for private interest purposes.

Download the constitutive agreement of the public interest group called “Centre d’accès sécurisé aux données” (CASD).

The change in legal status in 2019 enabled CASD to perpetuate the service, develop research services, gradually enhance the value of its technology with the private sector and ensure cost control for researchers.