Olivier Duhamel
Olivier Duhamel is a French university professor and politician. He was a Socialist member of the European Parliament from 1997 to 2004.Biography
Olivier Duhamel was born on 2 May 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
He has taught at the University of Franche-Comté, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Washington and New York University. He is a faculty member at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, though he stopped teaching in 2010.
He was an advisor to the Constitutional Council from 1983 to 1995, and to Georges Vedel in 1993 and Édouard Balladur in 2007. He served as MEP from 1997 to 2004.
He writes in the popular press for La Marseillaise and Valeurs Actuelles. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of another publication, POUVOIRS. He is an editor for the European Constitutional Law Review. He also appears on France Culture, LCI, and Europe 1.
He is the Vice-President of Le Siècle. He is also a member of the Club des Juristes, a legal think tank in France.
