Ezra Suleiman

Ezra Suleiman
Born	(1941-11-20) 20 November 1941 Basra, Iraq
Alma mater	Harvard University Columbia University
Occupation	Political scientist

Ezra N. Suleiman (born November 20, 1941, Basra) is an Iraqi-born American professor of political science at Princeton University.

Biography

After a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, he continued his studies in London and Paris, then obtained a Master of Arts and a PhD from Columbia University. The subject of his doctorate is Les politiques administratives et la haute fonction publique en France (Administration Politics and the Higher Civil Service in France).

• Member of the Axa Audit Committee.
• Member of the Board of Directors of Suez Environnement.
• Director: Centers for European Studies, Princeton University .
• Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Axa Research Fund.
• Associate Professor: Sciences Po.
• Member of the Steering Committee: Institut Montaigne.
• American Center, Sciences Po.
• Member of the Editorial Board: Comparative Politics, la Revue des deux Mondes, Politique internationale.
• Member: Council on Foreign Relations (New York). HEC Paris International Advisory.
• Member of the advisory board of the Forum d'Avignon - Culture, economy, media

Career

• 1973 - 1979: Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
• 1985 - 1998: President of the "Europe" Commission, Fulbright Commission
• 1990 - 1999: President of the program jury: The European Union, Sciences Po
• 1981 - 2000: Director, "Young Leaders" program (French-American Foundation)
• Since September 1979: Professor of political science at Princeton University

Bibliography

Les Élites en France (1979).

• Les Hauts Fonctionnaires et la politique, éd. du Seuil, 1976
• Les Notaires, Seuil, 1987
• Elites in French Society: the politics of survival, Princeton University Press, 1979
• Le démantèlement de l'Etat démocratique, Seuil, 2005, 397 p. (ISBN 978-2-02-060673-8)
• Schizophrénies françaises, Paris, Grasset, 2008, 308 p. (ISBN 978-2-246-70501-7)