Jean-Claude Casanova

Jean-Claude Casanova (born 11 June 1934 in Ajaccio) is a French economist, educator and public intellectual with a lifetime involvement in French civic life. He was the chairman of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques between 2007 and 2016. A centrist in politics, he cofounded the journal Commentaire with Raymond Aron in 1978, and since then has been its editor and publisher (directeur). Academic career and affiliations Casanova studied at where he received his Baccalauréat in 1951 and Institut des Hautes Etudes (1951-54) in Tunis, then at the University of Paris and at Sciences Po where he received a PhD in economics in 1957 and where he also chaired the Conférence Olivaint, a students association. In 1957-58 he visited the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He then taught economics at Sciences Po (1958-59), where he was one of the first scholars at the Centre de Recherches et d'etudes Internationales (CERI) in 1958. In 1961-63 he served in the French Military as a junior officer. He then was an assistant professor at the Faculté de Droit et des Sciences économiques in Dijon (1963-64), and in 1964 became a tenured directeur d'études et de recherches at Sciences Po, a position he kept until 1990. He taught at École nationale d'administration (1966-68) and Paris Nanterre University (1968-69) before returning to Sciences Po as a University Professor until 2002. He also taught at École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs between 1970 and 1976, and held visiting positions at University of Dakar, Harvard University, and Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.