Jean-Christophe Victor (30 May 1947 – 28 December 2016) was a French

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

focusing on

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. He was the son of the polar explorer Paul-Emile Victor and the television producer Éliane Decrais. He earned

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional prac ...

s in

Chinese Chinese may refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people identified with China, through nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **Han Chinese, East Asian ethnic group native to China. **'' Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic ...

at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, and in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

s at the University of Paris-1 (1982), as well as a

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ethnology Ethnology (from the , meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology). Sci ...

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

. He was posted as a diplomat in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

, worked as policy adviser at

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in Brussels, and for the Policy Planning Office at the

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (, MEAE) is the ministry of the Government of France that handles France's foreign relations. Since 1855, its headquarters have been located at 37 Quai d'Orsay, close to the National Assembly. The term ...

. He was the founder and the director of LEPAC, the Center for Political Studies and Cartographic Analysis, a Paris-based think tank. The LEPAC trains international managers in the corporate sector for companies such as

Veolia Veolia Environnement S.A., branded as Veolia, is a French transnational company with activities in three main service and utility areas traditionally managed by public authorities – water management, waste management and energy services. In ...

, Vinci,

Areva Areva S.A. was a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power, active between 2001 and 2018. It was headquartered in Courbevoie, France. Before its 2016 corporate restructuring, Areva was majority-owned by the French state through t ...

British Petroleum BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the oil and gas " supermajors" and one of ...

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, and L’Oréal; and public sector organisations including

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Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; , CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it is Europe's oldest intergovernmental organisation, represe ...

, and the

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. Victor taught

geopolitics Geopolitics () is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations. Geopolitics usually refers to countries and relations between them, it may also focus on two other kinds of State (polity), states: ''de fac ...

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and in several foreign universities. The last books he authored on geopolitics are: * "Le dessous des cartes : Itinéraires géopolitiques" (Beneath the Maps: Geopolitical Routes) 2011, Paris * "Political Atlas for Teenagers" 2010 ; Paris * "Atlas for a Changing World" 2008, Paris, Berlin, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei. He was the author of a weekly program on the Franco-German channel

ARTE Arte (, , ; ' ('), sometimes stylised in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European Union, European public service Television channel, channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based Europea ...

and the French international channel

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, dealing with geopolitics: '' Le dessous des cartes'' ("Beneath the Maps"). Jean-Christophe Victor died on 28 December 2016 from a

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Bibliography

* ''Itinéraires géopolitiques, Atlas du dessous des cartes'', 2011, Editions Tallandier/Arte Editions * ''Le dessous des cartes - Atlas Junior'', 2010, (with Dominique Fouchard and Catherine Barichnikoff), Editions Tallandier * 2007, (with Paul-Emile Victor) ''Adieu l'Antarctique'', Laffont, Paris * 2007, (with and Frank Tétart) ''Le dessous des cartes - Atlas d'un monde qui change'', Editions Tallandier * 2005, (with Virginie Raisson and Frank Tétart) ''Le dessous des cartes - Atlas géopolitique'', Editions Tallandier * 1993, ''L'enjeu afghan ou La cité des murmures'', Editions Lattès, Paris * 1992, ''Planète Antarctique'' (with

Paul-Émile Victor Paul-Émile Victor (born Paul Eugène Victor; 28 June 1907 – 7 March 1995) was a French ethnologist and explorer. Victor was born in Geneva, Switzerland to French Jewish parents of Bohemian and Polish descent. He graduated from École Centra ...

), Laffont, Paris * 1985, ''Armes : France Troisième Grand'', éditions Autrement, Paris

References

External links

Official web site of the tv programLepac web site, his think tank
1947 births 2016 deaths French political scientists French geographers French male non-fiction writers French people of Polish-Jewish descent French television presenters Scientists from Neuilly-sur-Seine {{France-academic-bio-stub