Special Counsel, Paris City Hall International Relations Department
Dr. Jean-Yves Camus, born in 1958, is Associate Fellow at the Defence, Security and Intelligence Research Unit at Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris and heads the Observatoire des radicalités politiques at the Fondation Jean Jaurès think-tank . He is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Université Paris-I Sorbonne. He seats on the Board of the Observatoire des extremisms et des signes émergeants, Laboratoire de Recherche Sociétés & Humanités (LARSH), Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes.
His fields of expertise are political extremism in Europe and the US, Racism and Antisemitism. His last book in English is “Far-Right Politics in Europe” (with Nicolas Lebourg) published by Harvard University Press in 2017.