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THE JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU INSTITUTE
ABOUT US
Michel Gurfinkiel
Michel Gurfinkiel, the Executive Chairman
of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, is the Editor in Chief of Valeurs Actuelles
(Paris), a French conservative newsweekly. He is also a member of the Editorial
Board of Commentaire
(Paris), the French political quarterly founded by Raymond Aron, and of Outre-Terre
(Paris), the French review on geopolitics edited by Michel Korinman.
Michel
Gurfinkiel contributes regularly to Le Figaro and Le Spectacle du Monde
(Paris), to the Times (London), to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Sun
and Commentary (New York), to the Middle East Quarterly (Philadelphia), to the
Weekly Standard (Washington), to the Jerusalem Post and Azure (Jerusalem), and
to Nativ (Tel Aviv). He is an editorialist and a regular guest on various
French TV and radio stations, as well as on the BBC, and Deutsche Welle.
Michel
Gurfinkiel's latest books are La Cuisson du Homard (Cooking the Lobster),
an essay on the present crisis between Israel and the Arab world (Michalon,
Paris, 2001) ; and Le Retour de la Russie (The Return of Russia), a
comprehensive study on Russian history and the post-communist regime (Odile
Jacob, Paris, 2001).
Forthcoming:
Geopolitics of the Future , an essay on the 21st century world.
Michel Gurfinkiel is a member of the Institut de
Stratégie Comparée (ISC), the interdisciplinary strategic academy at the French
School for Advanced Studies (EPHE). He is a Knight in the French Order of
Merit.
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Anne-Elisabeth Moutet
Anne-Elisabeth Moutet is the deputy chairman
and treasurer of the Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute. A Paris-based journalist
and writer, she was until last year deputy editor of Proche-Orient.info,
France's leading daily news site on Middle-East affairs, for whom she remains a
regular contributor. She is also a regular political commentator for the BBC.
She was
Paris Bureau Chief of The European newspaper between 1990 and 1998, a
job she held before that for the London Sunday Telegraph for three years. She worked for the
London Sunday Times
between 1981 and 1986. She was on the launch team of the French edition of Fortune magazine, and
started her career on France-Soir
and Vendredi-Samedi-Dimanche
(for whom she covered the 1980 Reagan campaign and the Iran hostage crisis as
US correspondent). She has contributed to the Wall Street Journal Europe
editorial page, Prospect (London), Valeurs Actuelles (Paris), the
National Interest (Washington), Deutsche
Welle (Cologne), ÖRF (Vienna), and is on the editorial board of
the forthcoming French quarterly Responsa.
Anne-Elisabeth
Moutet is currently working on “La Droite La Plus Intelligente Du Monde: À
la Rencontre de l'Amérique de George W. Bush,” a book that examines the
responses of the Bush Administration to 9/11 within the larger historical and
ideological framework of the American Conservative movement, to be published by
Éditions Robert Laffont.
Educated at
Moreton Hall College and Paris University, where she read History,
Anne-Elisabeth Moutet has lived in Paris, Jerusalem, London, Munich and New
York.
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Valérie Hoffenberg
Valérie
Hoffenberg is the Director of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute. (More
to come...)
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Charles Meyer
Charles Meyer is the General Counsel of the
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute. (More to come...)