Jacques Rupnik, educated at the University of Paris and at Harvard, is currently a research professor at CERI-Sciences Po in Paris as well as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Since joining CERI in 1982, he has been writing and lecturing about East and Central European history and politics and European integration.
He was advisor to president Vaclav Havel in the 1990s, executive director of the International Commission for the Balkans, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1995-1996), and drafter of its report "Unfinished Peace" (1996). He was also a member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo (1999-2000) and co-drafter of The Kosovo Report (Oxford UP, 2000). Among other positions held: advisor to the European Commission (2007-2010); member of the board of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague (2010-2017); member of the board of directors of the European Partnership for Democracy in Brussels (2008-2013). He has also been a visiting professor at several European universities and at Harvard.
Rupnik is the editor of Josef Guttmann: The Fates of Central Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2026). Other publications in English include The Other Europe (1989) and 1989 as a Political World Event: Democracy, Europe, and the New International System, with an introduction by Havel, London, Routledge, (2014), among others.
