Marie-Christine Kessler

Marie-Christine Kessler is a French political scientist. She is currently the emerita research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and spent much of her career at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. She studies the role of elites in shaping public policy, as well as French foreign policy.

Biography Kessler graduated from the Instituts d'études politiques in Paris, specialising in the study of public service. She then obtained a Doctor of Law degree in 1967, and in 1983 she earned a PhD in political science. and Grands Corps de l'Etat (The Grand Corps of the State) in 1986. She subsequently published two books on French foreign policy: La politique étrangère de la France. Acteurs et processus (Foreign policy in France: Actors and processes) in 1999, and Les Ambassadeurs (The ambassadors) in 2012.

Currently, Kessler is currently the emerita research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, associated with the Center for Studies and Research in Administrative Science (fr) there. From 1995 until 2000, she was a member of the national committee of section 40 of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and was the president from 2000 until 2004.

Kessler was also affiliated with the Cultural, Scientific, and Technical Affairs branch of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1990.

Selected works Le Conseil d'État (1968) Grands Corps de l'Etat (1986) La politique étrangère de la France. Acteurs et processus (1999) Les Ambassadeurs (2012)

Selected honours Chevalier, Legion of Honour Chevalier, French National Order of Merit