Michel Wieviorka

France

Michel Wieviorka, Doctor of Letters and Human Sciences, Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, is the President of the Executive Council of the Foundation of the Chair of Human Sciences. He was director of the Center d'analyse et d'intervention sociologique (CADIS, EHESS-CNRS) between 1993 and 2009.

From 2006 to 2010 he was President of the International Association of Sociology AIS / ISA and since 2014 he is a member of the Conseil scientifique de l'ERC (European Research Council). He was co-director with Georges Balandier of the journal Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie from 1991 to 2011, and now directs the new journal SOCIO with Laetitia Atlani-Duault, which he created in 2013.

After directing the "Voix et Regards" collection at Balland editions, he is now responsible for the "Le monde comme il va" collection at Robert Laffont and Julien Ténédos editions of MSH Publishing's "Interventions" collection.

(Text taken from http://cadis.ehess.fr/index.php?11)