100 Notable alumni of
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

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The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is 330th in the world, 112th in Europe, and 9th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences won Nobel Prizes in Economics.

  1. Thomas Piketty

    Thomas Piketty
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    1991-1993 graduated with doctorate in France in economics
    Occupations
    research felloweconomistwriterscreenwriter
    Biography

    Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.

  2. Bruno Latour

    Bruno Latour
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1947-2022 (aged 75)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1987 graduated with habilitation
    Occupations
    writersociologistprofessoranthropologistphilosopher
    Biography

    Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he became professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017. He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.

  3. Esther Duflo

    Esther Duflo
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
    Occupations
    economistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Esther Duflo Banerjee, FBA is a French–American economist who is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

  4. Pap Ndiaye

    Pap Ndiaye
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    politicianhistorian
    Biography

    Pap Ndiaye is a French historian and politician who has been serving as France's Ambassador to the Council of Europe since 2023.

  5. Édouard Louis

    Édouard Louis
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1992-.. (age 32)
    Occupations
    editorwriter
    Biography

    Édouard Louis is a French writer.

  6. Caroline Fourest

    Caroline Fourest
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1975-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    journalistfilm directorwriterwomen's rights activist
    Biography

    Caroline Fourest, is a French feminist writer, film director, journalist, radio presenter at France Culture, and editor of the magazine ProChoix. She was also a columnist for Charlie Hebdo, for Le Monde until 14 July 2012, and she joined Marianne in 2016.

  7. Laure Adler

    Laure Adler
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1978 graduated with doctorate in France in study of history
    Occupations
    radio personalitypublisherradio producerwritercollection manager
    Biography

    Laure Adler is a French journalist, writer, publisher and radio/TV producer.

  8. Tzvetan Todorov

    Tzvetan Todorov
    Born in
    Bulgaria Flag Bulgaria
    Years
    1939-2017 (aged 78)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1966 graduated with doctorate in France in psychology
    Occupations
    essayistliterary criticsociologistphilosophernon-fiction writer
    Biography

    Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory, intellectual history and culture theory.

  9. Zineb El Rhazoui

    Zineb El Rhazoui
    Born in
    Morocco Flag Morocco
    Years
    1982-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    journalist
    Biography

    Zineb El Rhazoui is a Moroccan-born French journalist. She was a columnist for the Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo from 2011 to 2017, but was in Morocco during the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015.

  10. Bernard Stiegler

    Bernard Stiegler
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1952-2020 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    philosopher
    Biography

    Bernard Stiegler was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also the founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis; the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel; and a co-founder in 2018 of Collectif Internation, a group of "politicised researchers" His best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus.

  11. Franck Ferrand

    Franck Ferrand
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    1989-1991 graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
    Occupations
    non-fiction writerhistorianwriterradio personalityjournalist
    Biography

    Franck Ferrand is a French writer and radio personality who specializes in history. He has a radio show about major figures of French history on Radio Classique, a French Radio station.

  12. Alain Touraine

    Alain Touraine
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1925-2023 (aged 98)
    Occupations
    sociologistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became an internationally-renowned sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.

  13. Jean Tirole

    Jean Tirole
    Awards
    Nobel Prize in Economics in 2014
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    economistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Jean Tirole is a French economist who is currently a professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University. He focuses on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and psychology. In particular, he focuses on the regulation of economic activity in a way that does not hinder innovation while maintaining fair rules.

  14. Marcela Iacub

    Marcela Iacub
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1993 graduated with doctorate in France in private law
    Occupations
    poet lawyerwriterlawyer
    Biography

    Marcela Iacub is an Argentine writer and jurist specializing in bioethics research, living in France. In 2013, Iacub was successfully sued for invasion of privacy by Dominique Strauss-Kahn: her novel Belle et Bête included a character based on him.

  15. Gilles Kepel

    Gilles Kepel
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
    Occupations
    political scientistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Gilles Kepel, is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He is Professor at Sciences Po Paris, the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) and director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Program at PSL, based at Ecole Normale Supérieure. His latest english-translated book, Away from Chaos. The Middle East and the Challenge to the West (Columbia University Press, 2020) was reviewed by The New York Times as “an excellent primer for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the region”. His last essay, le Prophète et la Pandémie / du Moyen-Orient au jihadisme d'atmosphère, just released in French (February 2021), has topped the best-seller lists and is currently being translated into English and a half-dozen languages. The excerpt The Murder of Samuel Paty is presently released in the Issue 3 of Liberties Journal (April 27, 2021).

  16. Frédéric Lordon

    Frédéric Lordon
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    economistDirector of Research at CNRSphilosophersociologist
    Biography

    Frédéric Lordon is a French economist and philosopher, CNRS Director of Research at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique in Paris. He is an influential figure in France's Nuit debout movement and has regularly contributed to French broadcast and print media on French and European politics, and also writes a regular opinion column for Le Monde diplomatique. He has argued in favour of Communism as an alternative to Capitalism in books, articles and media appearances, and has been engaged in a project of re-grounding the social sciences in a Spinoza-inspired materialism. He is considered one of the most prominent intellectual voices of the radical left in France today.

  17. Julia Cagé

    Julia Cagé
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1984-.. (age 40)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 2014 graduated with doctorate in France in economics
    Occupations
    economist
    Biography

    Julia Cagé is a French economist specializing in development economics, political economy, and economic history.

  18. Frédéric Lenoir

    Frédéric Lenoir
    Born in
    Madagascar Flag Madagascar
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1999 graduated with doctorate in sociology of religion
    Occupations
    sociologistwriterlecturer
    Biography

    Frédéric Lenoir is a French sociologist, philosopher and writer

  19. Geoffroy de Lagasnerie

    Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1981-.. (age 43)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    philosophersociologist
    Biography

    Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is a French philosopher and sociologist.

  20. Maylis de Kerangal

    Maylis de Kerangal
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    editorwriter
    Biography

    Maylis de Kerangal is a French author. Her novels deeply explore people in their work lives. She has won several awards for her work, and her novels have been published in several languages. Two have been adapted as films.

  21. Cheng Li-chun

    Cheng Li-chun
    Born in
    Taiwan Flag Taiwan
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    politicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Cheng Li-chun is a Taiwanese politician who served as the Minister of Culture from 2016 to 2020.

  22. Shlomo Sand

    Shlomo Sand
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacheractivist
    Biography

    Shlomo Sand is an Israeli Emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University.

  23. Benjamin Stora

    Benjamin Stora
    Born in
    Algeria Flag Algeria
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1978 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teachersociologist
    Biography

    Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds two PhDs (1974 and 1984) and a Doctorate of the State (1991).

  24. Pierre Rosanvallon

    Pierre Rosanvallon
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France in study of history
    Occupations
    professorpolitical scientisteconomisthistoriantrade unionist
    Biography

    Pierre Rosanvallon is a French historian and sociologist. He was named a professor at the Collège de France in 2001, holding the chair in modern and contemporary political history.

  25. Philippe Descola

    Philippe Descola
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    senior lectureruniversity teacheranthropologistdirecteur d'étudesprofessor
    Biography

    Philippe Descola, FBA is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples, and for his contributions to anthropological theory.

  26. Georges Didi-Huberman

    Georges Didi-Huberman
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1981 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    art theoristuniversity teacherart historianphilosopher
    Biography

    Georges Didi-Huberman FBA is a French philosopher and art historian.

  27. Stanislas Dehaene

    Stanislas Dehaene
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    Director of Research at CNRSuniversity teacherpsychologistneuroscientist
    Biography

    Stanislas Dehaene is a French author and cognitive neuroscientist whose research centers on a number of topics, including numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading and the neural correlates of consciousness. As of 2017, he is a professor at the Collège de France and, since 1989, the director of INSERM Unit 562, "Cognitive Neuroimaging".

  28. Pierre Lévy

    Pierre Lévy
    Born in
    Tunisia Flag Tunisia
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1983 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    university teachersociologistwriterscreenwriteradjunct professor
    Biography

    Pierre Lévy is a Tunisian-born French philosopher, cultural theorist and media scholar who specializes in the understanding of the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies and the phenomenon of human collective intelligence.

  29. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

    Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
    Born in
    Senegal Flag Senegal
    Years
    1990-.. (age 34)
    Occupations
    prose writerwriter
    Biography

    Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is a Senegalese writer. Raised in Diourbel, Senegal and later studying in France, Sarr is the author of four novels as well as a number of award-winning short stories. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his novel La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (lit. 'The Most Secret Memory of Men'), becoming the first Sub-Saharan African to do so.

  30. Ignacio Ramonet

    Ignacio Ramonet
    Born in
    Spain Flag Spain
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    writersemiologistgeopolitical analystsociologistjournalist
    Biography

    Ignacio Ramonet Miguez is a Spanish academic, journalist and writer who has been based in Paris for much of his career. After becoming first known for writing on film and media, he became editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique, serving from 1991 until March 2008. Under his leadership, LMD established editorial independence in 1996 from Le Monde, with which it had been affiliated since 1954.

  31. Aurélien Bellanger

    Aurélien Bellanger
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    writernovelistcyclistactorchronicler
    Biography

    Aurélien Bellanger,, is a French writer and actor. He debuted in 2010 with a monograph about Michel Houellebecq and has since published novels on a regular basis. His second novel, L'Aménagement du territoire, received the 2014 Prix de Flore. Due to his occupation with technology and modern life, his novels have been compared to the works of Houellebecq and Honoré de Balzac. In La Croix, Sabine Audrerie notes "If we had to look for a link, we could retain the desire to be part of the Balzacie heritage." Less elogious, Jérôme Dupuis of L'Express described him as "a Houellebecq without humour, without sex, without aphorism, without melancholy".

  32. Frédéric Martel

    Frédéric Martel
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 2006 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
    Occupations
    writeressayistsociologistpolitical scientistjournalist
    Biography

    Frédéric Martel is a French writer, researcher and journalist. His most famous books are The Pink and the Black, Homosexuals in France since 1968 (1996), Mainstream (2010) and In the Closet of the Vatican (2019), a New York Times bestseller.

  33. Michael Löwy

    Michael Löwy
    Born in
    Brazil Flag Brazil
    Years
    1938-.. (age 86)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1964 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    research fellowuniversity teachersociologistphilosopher
    Biography

    Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS; Paris, France). Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, José Carlos Mariátegui, Lucien Goldmann and Franz Kafka, he received the CNRS Silver Medal in 1994.

  34. Gabriel Zucman

    Gabriel Zucman
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1986-.. (age 38)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 2013 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    economistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Gabriel Zucman is a French economist who is currently an associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley‘s Goldman School of Public Policy, Chaired Professor at the Paris School of Economics, and Director of the EU Tax Observatory.

  35. Didier Fassin

    Didier Fassin
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1988 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
    Occupations
    university teacherhumanitarianphysiciansociologistanthropologist
    Biography

    Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and holds a Direction of Studies in Political and Moral Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has been appointed to the Chair of Public Health at the Collège de France. Fassin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.

  36. Jean Hyppolite

    Jean Hyppolite
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1907-1968 (aged 61)
    Occupations
    translatorphilosopherlinguistprofessor
    Biography

    Jean Hyppolite was a French philosopher known for championing the work of G.W.F. Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers. His major works include Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel (1946) and Études sur Marx et Hegel (1955) and the first translation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit into French in 1939.

  37. Susan George

    Susan George
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1934-.. (age 90)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1979 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    sociologistwriterpolitical scientisteconomistphilosopher
    Biography

    Susan George is an American and French political and social scientist, activist and writer on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. She is the president of the Transnational Institute, a think-tank located in Amsterdam. She is a fierce critic of the present policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (IBRD) and what she calls their 'maldevelopment model'. She similarly criticizes the structural reform policies of the Washington Consensus on Third World development. She is of U.S. birth but now resides in France, and has had dual citizenship since 1994.

  38. Arié Alimi

    Arié Alimi
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 2002 graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Arié Alimi, is a French lawyer and a member of the Human Rights League (LDH).

  39. Monique Canto-Sperber

    Monique Canto-Sperber
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
    Occupations
    translatoruniversity teacherphilosopherorganizational founder
    Biography

    Monique Canto-Sperber is a French philosopher. Her works, translated in several languages, are focused on ethics and contemporary political issues. A former Director of the École normale supérieure from 2005 to 2012, she has been President of Paris Sciences et Lettres – Quartier latin, a French higher education and research institution, since 2012.

  40. Jacques Salomé

    Jacques Salomé
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1935-.. (age 89)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    Jacques Salomé is a French psychologist and writer.

  41. Dominique Bourg

    Dominique Bourg
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    Graduated with doctorate
    Occupations
    honorary professoruniversity teacherpoliticianecologistphilosopher
    Biography

    Dominique Bourg is a French philosopher. Since 2006, he is professor at the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).

  42. Louis Dumont

    Louis Dumont
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1911-1998 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    university teachersociologistanthropologist
    Biography

    Louis Charles Jean Dumont was a French anthropologist.

  43. Enzo Traverso

    Enzo Traverso
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1957-.. (age 67)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    Graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacherhistorian of Modern Age
    Biography

    Enzo Traverso is an Italian scholar of European intellectual history. He is the author of several books on critical theory, the Holocaust, Marxism, memory, totalitarianism, revolution, and contemporary historiography. His books have been translated into numerous languages. After living and working in France for over 25 years, he is currently the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University.

  44. Alain Gresh

    Alain Gresh
    Born in
    Egypt Flag Egypt
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    journalist
    Biography

    Alain Gresh is a French communist party leader and journalist.

  45. Pierre Bergounioux

    Pierre Bergounioux
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    writerdiaristteacherliterary criticsculptor
    Biography

    Pierre Bergounioux is a French writer. He won the 1986 Prix Alain-Fournier for his second novel, Ce pas et le suivant. And in 2002, he won the SGDL literary grand prize for his body of work.

  46. Roger-Pol Droit

    Roger-Pol Droit
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 2008 graduated with habilitation
    Occupations
    journalistresearcheruniversity teacherphilosopher
    Biography

    Roger-Pol Droit is a French academic and philosopher. An alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he has written numerous books, most notably 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life, which has been translated into 22 languages. For 25 years, he has studied the way the East is seen in Western philosophy.

  47. Olivier Weber

    Olivier Weber
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    writerscreenwriterbiographerdiplomatjournalist
    Biography

    Olivier Weber is a French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Iraq. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and today ambassador of France at large. Weber has won several national and international awards of literature and journalism, in particular for his stories on Afghanistan and for his books on wars. His novels, travels writing books and essays have been translated in a dozen of languages.

  48. Geneviève Fraisse

    Geneviève Fraisse
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    Graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
    Occupations
    historianwriterpoliticianphilosopher
    Biography

    Geneviève Fraisse is a French feminist philosopher.

  49. Fariba Adelkhah

    Fariba Adelkhah
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    researcheranthropologisttranslator
    Biography

    Fariba Adelkhah is a French-Iranian anthropologist and academic at Sciences Po who was detained in Iran from 2019 until 2023.

  50. Chahdortt Djavann

    Chahdortt Djavann
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    writeranthropologist
    Biography

    Chahdortt Djavann is an Iranian-born French contemporary writer, novelist, and essayist. Her works often touch on topics such as identity and memory; and she is outspoken against Islam and Iranian religious leaders. She regularly appears on French television and radio.

  51. Karol Beffa

    Karol Beffa
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    actorpianistclassical composer
    Biography

    Karol Beffa, born on 27 October 1973 in Paris, is a French and Swiss composer and pianist.

  52. Sébastien Nadot

    Sébastien Nadot
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 2009 graduated with doctorate in history
    Occupations
    politiciansport historianphysical education teacher
    Biography

    Sébastien Nadot, is a French historian, writer and politician. In the 2017 elections, he was elected as a member of La République En Marche! to the French National Assembly, representing the department of Haute-Garonne's 10th constituency. In December 2018, he was excluded from LREM for having voted against the 2019 draft budget. In May 2020, he was one of the 17 initial members of the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group in the National Assembly.

  53. Charbel Nahas

    Charbel Nahas
    Born in
    Lebanon Flag Lebanon
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    writerpoliticianuniversity teachereconomistengineer
    Biography

    Charbel Nahas is a Lebanese politician, economist and engineer who is the General Secretary of Citizens in a State, a political party that was established in 2016 and that has as its goal to create "a civil, democratic, fair and capable state". He is widely considered to be a Lebanese progressive whose priority has been to improve living conditions for the country's disenfranchised poor.

  54. Soti Triantafyllou

    Soti Triantafyllou
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1957-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    historianjournalistwriter
    Biography

    Soti Triantafyllou or Triantafillou is a Greek writer, columnist, translator, and political/social commentator. She is based in Athens and Paris.

  55. Božidar Đelić

    Božidar Đelić
    Born in
    Serbia Flag Serbia
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    economistinternational forum participant
    Biography

    Božidar Đelić is a Serbian economist and former politician. A longtime member of the Democratic Party, he was highly positioned in politics of Serbia after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević. He served as the Minister of Finance and Economy in the Government of Serbia from 2001 to 2004 and later as Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and Minister of Science and Technological Development from 2007 to 2011.

  56. Jean-Christophe Attias

    Jean-Christophe Attias
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    Hebraisthistoriandirector of studiesphilosopher
    Biography

    Jean-Christophe Attias is a French historian and scholar. He was born to an Algerian Jewish father and a Catholic mother from the Charente.

  57. Anselm Jappe

    Anselm Jappe
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 2000 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    non-fiction writersociologistphilosopher
    Biography

    Anselm Jappe is a German professor of philosophy. Jappe currently resides in Italy. Jappe has authored several works in German, French, and Italian. Jappe has lectured at several institutions in within higher education.

  58. Ariella Azoulay

    Ariella Azoulay
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    art educator
    Biography

    Ariella Azoulay is an Israeli author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University and an independent curator of Archives and Exhibitions.

  59. Jean-Louis Cohen

    Jean-Louis Cohen
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1949-2023 (aged 74)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France in art history
    Occupations
    architectuniversity teacherarchitectural historianart historian
    Biography

    Jean-Louis Cohen was a French architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and city planning. Since 1994 he had been the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

  60. Luc Ferrandez

    Luc Ferrandez
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Luc Ferrandez from Montreal, Quebec, was the interim leader of the municipal party Projet Montreal from 2014. From 2009 to 2019 he served as the mayor of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. He is a member of the Projet Montréal municipal political party.

  61. François Héran

    François Héran
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1979 graduated with doctorate in France in anthropology
    Occupations
    statisticiananthropologistdemographersociologist
    Biography

    François Héran is a French anthropologist and demographic sociologist.

  62. Yves Bréchet

    Yves Bréchet
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    researcherphysicistengineer
    Biography

    Yves Bréchet is a physicist, specialist of materials science, former High Commissioner for Atomic Energy of France, current Scientific Director of Saint Gobain, professor (part-time) at Monash University, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

  63. Alain Marleix

    Alain Marleix
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    politicianjournalist
    Biography

    Alain Marleix is a French politician. He was the Secretary of State for Veterans in the government of François Fillon from June 2007 to March 2008. From 2008 to 2010 he is in charge of the redefinition of Boundary delimitation for the elections to the Assemblée Nationale.

  64. Blandine Rinkel

    Blandine Rinkel
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1991-.. (age 33)
    Occupations
    journalistdancerwritermusician
    Biography

    Blandine Rinkel is a French journalist, musician and writer. She was nominated for the 2018 Prix Goncourt first novel. She won the 2022 Prix Méduse.

  65. Sia Anagnostopoulou

    Sia Anagnostopoulou
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1993 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacherpolitician
    Biography

    Athanasia "Sia" Anagnostopoulou is a left-wing Greek politician and academic who was the Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. From 18 July to 28 August 2015, she served as the Alternate Minister for European Affairs in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.

  66. Jade Y. Chen

    Jade Y. Chen
    Born in
    Taiwan Flag Taiwan
    Years
    1957-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    journalistplaywrightwritertheatrical director
    Biography

    Jade Y. Chen is a novelist, journalist, theatre director and playwright from Taiwan. She is best known for her book, China, which won the Taiwan Golden Text Award (金典獎) for best novel and the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Dream of the Red Chamber Award Jury Prize. Her 2004 bestselling novel Mazu's Bodyguards was adapted into a musical, presented at the National Theater in Taipei in December 2009. In Taiwan Today, it was described as a "bold attempt to explore Taiwan’s complex ethnic, cultural and political history".

  67. Camille Froidevaux-Metterie

    Camille Froidevaux-Metterie
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1997 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    university teacherwomen's rights activistresearch fellowpolitical scientistphilosopher
    Biography

    Camille Froidevaux-Metterie is a French philosopher, researcher and professor of political science. Her work focuses on the transformations of the female condition in the contemporary era, in a phenomenological perspective that places the question of the body at the center of the reflection. Her work also focuses on women's reappropriation of their bodies as expressed in recent feminist movements dealing with issues related to intimacy and female genitality (notably the Harvey Weinstein affair and the MeToo movement). In 2017, she was awarded the Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite.

  68. Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

    Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1935-.. (age 89)
    Occupations
    university teacherhistorian
    Biography

    Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch is a French historian and Africanist. She is professor emeritus at Paris Diderot University.

  69. Valérie Petit

    Valérie Petit
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Valérie Petit is a French politician who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 elections until 2022, representing the 9th constituency of the department of Nord. From 2016 until 2020, she was a member of La République En Marche! (LREM).

  70. Simonetta Greggio

    Simonetta Greggio
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    short story writerfood criticnovelisttranslatorjournalist
    Biography

    Simonetta Greggio is an Italian novelist who writes in French.

  71. Annette Becker

    Annette Becker
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1986 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    docenthistorianhigh school teacherprofesseur des universités
    Biography

    Annette Becker is a French historian specializing in study of World War I. She is daughter of historian Jean-Jacques Becker.

  72. Manuel Antonio Garretón

    Manuel Antonio Garretón
    Born in
    Chile Flag Chile
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    Graduated with doctorate
    Occupations
    sociologistwriter
    Biography

    Manuel Antonio Garretón is a Chilean sociologist, political scientist and essayist. He received the National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences in 2007 for his lifetime contribution to the field.

  73. Françoise Thom

    Françoise Thom
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1983 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    senior lecturerhistorianuniversity teachersovietologist
    Biography

    Françoise Thom is a French historian and Sovietologist, honorary lecturer in contemporary history at Paris-Sorbonne University. A specialist in post-communist Russia, she is the author of works of political analysis on the country and its leaders.

  74. Safi Faye

    Safi Faye
    Born in
    Senegal Flag Senegal
    Years
    1943-2023 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    film directorscreenwriterethnologistfilm actor
    Biography

    Safi Faye was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focusing on rural life in Senegal.

  75. Maristella Svampa

    Maristella Svampa
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    environmentalistsociologist
    Biography

    Maristella Noemi Svampa is an Argentine sociologist.

  76. António Francisco dos Santos

    António Francisco dos Santos
    Born in
    Portugal Flag Portugal
    Years
    1948-2017 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    Catholic priestCatholic bishopphilosopher
    Biography

    António Francisco dos Santos was a Roman Catholic bishop.

  77. Heinz Wismann

    Heinz Wismann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1935-.. (age 89)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1984 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    university teacherhellenisttranslatorclassical philologistphilosophy historian
    Biography

    Heinz Wismann is a Franco-German philologist and philosopher.

  78. Antonio Casilli

    Antonio Casilli
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 2006 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    sociologistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Antonio A. Casilli is a Professor of Sociology at Télécom Paris, the school of telecommunications engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, and an Associate Researcher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. His research focuses on computer-mediated communication, labour, and fundamental rights. He has been a regular commentator at La Grande Table and Place de la Toile on France Culture.

  79. Ana Lucia Araujo

    Ana Lucia Araujo
    Born in
    Brazil Flag Brazil
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    writerhistorian
    Biography

    Ana Lucia Araujo is an American historian, art historian, author, and professor of history at Howard University. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. Her scholarship focuses on the transnational history, public memory, visual culture, and heritage of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.

  80. Benoît Pellistrandi

    Benoît Pellistrandi
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1997 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    university teacherhistorian
    Biography

    Benoît Pellistrandi is a French historian and hispanist.

  81. Perrine Simon-Nahum

    Perrine Simon-Nahum
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1989 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    historiancollection manageruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Perrine Simon-Nahum is a contemporary French historian.

  82. Jean-Louis Fabiani

    Jean-Louis Fabiani
    Born in
    Algeria Flag Algeria
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    sociologist
    Biography

    Jean-Louis Fabiani is a French sociologist, professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, and the director of studies at the Centre d'études sociologiques et politiques Raymond Aron at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

  83. Claude Fischler

    Claude Fischler
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    sociologist
    Biography

    Claude Fischler is a French social scientist (sociology, anthropology). He is a directeur de recherche of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and heads the Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain (Interdisciplinary Institute for Contemporary Anthropology), a research unit of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, in Paris.

  84. Maurice Olender

    Maurice Olender
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1946-2022 (aged 76)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France in historical science
    Occupations
    historianarchaeologistdocent
    Biography

    Maurice Olender was a Belgian-French historian, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His teaching focused in particular on the genesis of the idea of race in the nineteenth century. He also published widely on the intellectual history of the concepts of Indo-European languages and Proto-language, most importantly in his monograph Les langues du Paradis. As editor, he headed the journal Le Genre humain and La librairie du XXIe siècle at Éditions du Seuil.

  85. Victor Leemans

    Victor Leemans
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1901-1971 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    trade unionistpoliticiansociologist
    Biography

    Victor Leemans was a Belgian sociologist, politician and prominent ideologist of the radical Flemish movement in the 1930s. A member of the militant organisation Verdinaso, he is seen by some as the main Flemish exponent of the historical phenomenon known as the Conservative Revolution.

  86. André Gattolin

    André Gattolin
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    docentpoliticianecologist
    Biography

    André Gattolin is a French ecologist politician and Senator for Hauts-de-Seine.

  87. Bruno Ben Moubamba

    Bruno Ben Moubamba
    Born in
    Gabon Flag Gabon
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 2012 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Bruno Ben Moubamba is a Gabonese politician. As an opposition leader, he stood as a candidate in the 2009 and 2016 presidential elections in Gabon. He served in the government as Minister of Housing from 2016 to 2017.

  88. John Tolan

    John Tolan
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    university teacherhistorian
    Biography

    John Victor Tolan is a historian of religious and cultural relations between the Arab and Latin-speaking civilizations of the Middle Ages.

  89. Serge Dufoulon

    Serge Dufoulon
    Born in
    Tunisia Flag Tunisia
    Years
    1956-2022 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    anthropologistradio columnistuniversity teachersociologist
    Biography

    Serge Dufoulon was a French post-modern sociologist. He was also a blogger and former columnist on the RMC program Les Grandes Gueules. He primarily carried out research on the sociology of work, as well as immigration and the environment.

  90. Layla AbdelRahim

    Layla AbdelRahim
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    Studied in 1993-1994
    Occupations
    authoranthropologist
    Biography

    Layla AbdelRahim is a comparatist anthropologist and anarchoprimitivist author, whose works on narratives of civilization and wilderness have contributed to the fields of anthropology, literary and cultural studies, comparative literature, philosophy, animal studies, ecophilosophy, sociology, anarcho-primitivist thought, anarchism, epistemology, and critique of civilization, technology, and education. She attributes the collapse in the diversity of bio-systems and environmental degradation to monoculturalism and the civilized ontology that explains existence in terms of anthropocentric utilitarian functions.

  91. Olivier Chaline

    Olivier Chaline
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1992 graduated with doctorate
    Occupations
    historian
    Biography

    Olivier Chaline is a contemporary French historian, a specialist of the history of Central Europe.

  92. Yves Censi

    Yves Censi
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Yves Censi was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the first constituency of the Aveyron department, from 2002 to 2017 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

  93. Philippe Di Folco

    Philippe Di Folco
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    translatorscreenwriterpoetlinguistessayist
    Biography

    Philippe Di Folco is a French author and teacher.

  94. Laurent Gervereau

    Laurent Gervereau
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    historianartistphilosopher
    Biography

    Laurent Gervereau is a French artist, novelist, philosopher and filmmaker. The founder of the discipline of Visual History (or Histiconologia), he has devoted his professional life to the world of images, as well as to the direction of cultural and international institutions.

  95. Georges-Elia Sarfati

    Georges-Elia Sarfati
    Born in
    Tunisia Flag Tunisia
    Years
    1957-.. (age 67)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 1989 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    university teacherlinguistpsychoanalystphilosophertranslator
    Biography

    Georges-Elia Sarfati is a philosopher, linguist, poet, and an existentialist psychoanalyst, author of written works in the domains of ethics, Jewish thought, social criticism, and discourse analysis. He has translated Viktor E. Frankl. He is the grand-nephew of the sociologist Gaston Bouthoul.

  96. Mahnaz Shirali

    Mahnaz Shirali
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    In 2000 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
    Occupations
    university teachersociologistpolitical scientist
    Biography

    Dr. Mahnaz Shirali is an Iranian author and political sociologist. She graduated in architecture engineering from faculty of fine arts of Tehran University in 1992. She moved to France in 1994 where she obtained her PhD in sociology from School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris in 2000. Her PhD thesis was about crisis in youth Iranian generation.

  97. Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur

    Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    economist
    Biography

    Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur is a French economist and Professor at the Paris School of Economics. Hautcoeurs research interests include money, credit and long-run finance. His research was awarded the Best Young French Economist Award in 2003.

  98. Marta Verginella

    Marta Verginella
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    historian
    Biography

    Marta Verginella is a Slovenian historian from the Slovene minority in Italy in Trieste, notable as one of the most prominent contemporary Slovene historians. Together with Alenka Puhar, she is considered a pioneer in the history of family relations in the Slovene Lands.

  99. Sari Hanafi

    Sari Hanafi
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    sociologist
    Biography

    Sari Hanafi is currently a professor of sociology at the American University of Beirut and chair of the Islamic Studies program. He is the president of the International Sociological Association and also the editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology. In 2018, Hanafi founded "Athar", the Portal for Social impact of scientific research in/on the Arab world.

  100. Anne-Catherine Robert

    Anne-Catherine Robert
    Years
    20th Century
    Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
    Graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    university teacher
    Biography

    Anne-Catherine Robert is a Belgian museum professional and lecturer at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne who also served as Director General of the International Council of Museums, from May 2014 through November 2016.