Teaching staff
Instruction at IFE is carried out by a teaching staff composed principally of teachers from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po") and the University of Paris.
Occasional lecturers (practitioners and professors), internship mentors, and host organizations make up a wider network of individuals on whom IFE depends and who support and encourage IFE in its work.
Associate Professor at the University of Paris, Dominique provides IFE’s students with an overview of the roots, current makeup, and problems of French social democracy. He is a graduate of the renowed Ecole Normale Supérieur (Saint-Cloud) and holds the Agrégation, the highest academic certification.
Associate Professor of European History at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (“Sciences Po”) and Administrative Director of the Research Center for Twentieth Century European History (CHEVS), Pascal was also Dean of international students at Sciences Po from 1994-1999. At IFE he helps shape the academic program and teaches contemporary French history. He has published—in French and Russian—on the Russian Revolution and is a specialist on the historiography of communism and edits a book series for Seuil Editions.
Hélène is a doctoral student at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris and is associated with the Center for European Studies of Sciences Po, where she more particularly studies European economic policies. Hélène is a teaching assistant at Sciences Po and also teaches at the University Paris X Nanterre and at the Univeristy Cergy-Pontoise. Specialised in the field of political sciences and European studies, she worked with the European Commission (Secretary General ; Directorate General Energy and Transport) and other European organisations before starting her Phd.
Professor of Economics at Lycée Rabelais in Meudon, Guy holds degrees in history, sociology, and political science from the University of Paris. Member of the editorial board of Nouveaux Regards,he is also active in book editing on questions social policy.
Historian and Professor at Paris’ Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Pierre has published reference works on the Cold War (1995) and the Causes of the Second World War (1999). His latest work is on War and Crisis in the 20th Century. Recently named Director of Studies at the Diplomacy Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pierre teaches international relations at IFE, emphasizing the history and evolution of France’s international role.
With degrees in Art History and from Paris’ renowned Ecole Centrale, Jérôme has broad experience in cultural management and cultural affairs (French cultural attaché to Atlanta, gallery management in Paris, opera production in Berlin, directing contemporary fine arts center in Brittany, organizing interprofessional conference on contemporary art) and has founded an Observatory for Contemporary Art. At IFE he lectures on culture and society, and cultural politics.
Bernard Rivière
Founding director of IFE now retired, Bernard continues to carry out special projects for IFE.
Anne Ruel-Drossos has just recently completed a doctoral thesis on the « Invention of the Mediterranean: Origins, uses, and future prospectives » at the European University Institute of Florence. Anne teaches at the Institute of European Studies (IES), as well as at New York University in Paris, the University of Provence, and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence.
