Yanis M’zali holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from Sciences Po Paris (2021). He has held several positions within ministerial offices, including working with Government Spokesperson Gabriel Attal and Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Minister of State for Development, whom he accompanied to the United Nations General Assembly, COP conferences and more than 30 countries and international summits. He subsequently served as Diplomatic Adviser to Catherine Vautrin, Minister for Health and Social Affairs. In this role, he coordinated the French delegation to the 2024 World Health Assembly and worked on issues relating to global health architecture, the management of the mpox crisis and humanitarian assistance to Gaza.
After a period at Gavi in Geneva, in the Resource Mobilisation Department, he joined the Institut Pasteur, where he has served for nearly two years as Chief of Staff to the Director General, Professor Yasmine Belkaid.