Claudine Monteil

Claudine Monteil (born 1949) is a French writer, women's rights specialist, historian, and a former French diplomat.

Early life and education Monteil's mother, Josiane Serre, was a pioneer of french quantum chemistry and the director of the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles. Her father is Fields Medal and Abel Prize winning mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre. Monteil holds a Ph.D. on the study of Simone de Beauvoir's writings and life.

Career Monteil is one of the founders of the French women's rights movement in 1970 and one of the signatories of the Manifesto of the 343.

Claudine Monteil has been a retired French diplomat since the end of 2014. She has been working at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on different issues, including the relations between France and institutions of the United Nations as, among others, UNICEF, UNFPA, and UNESCO. In 2016, she published the first biography on Ève Curie, youngest daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, who was a hero of World War II.