Jean-François Bayart

Jean-Francois Bayart was director of CERI from 1994 to 2000. A specialist in comparative politics, he has a particular interest in the historical sociology of the state - in Sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey and Iran - notably its political imaginaires. He is co-founder of Politique Africaine and an adviser to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bayart also teaches at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and writes regularly for the French media, notably Le Monde, Liberation and France-Culture.