Hélène Carrère D'encausse

Hélène Carrère D'encausse was born in Paris in a family that the cosmopolitan spirit and the Russian revolution have for a long time dispersed across Europe. Among his ancestors are great servants of the Empire, protesters of the same Empire, the president of the Academy of Sciences under Catherine II, and three regicides. This heredity naturally predisposed her to the study of history and political science, which she taught at the Sorbonne before transferring her professorial chair - the nomadic spirit of the family helping - to the Institute of Studies. policies of Paris. She also taught for several years at the European College in Bruges. Visiting professor in many foreign universities, especially in North America and Japan, she has an honorary doctorate from Laval and Montreal universities in Canada, from the University of Louvain and the University of Bucharest. President of Radio Sorbonne-Radio France from 1984 to 1987, member of the Commission des Sages for the reform of the Nationality Code in 1986-1987. During 1992, she held the post of adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, thus participating in the development of a policy of assistance for the democratization of the former communist states. Elected to the European Parliament in June 1994, she was vice-chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense. Vice-president of the French diplomatic archives commission; she also chaired the Human Sciences Commission at the National Book Center from 1993 to 1996. Appointed in 1998 member of the National Council for a New Development of the Human and Social Sciences.