The rector Gérard-François Dumont is Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. PreviouslyMember Section of the Economic and Social Council, an expert with the European Economic andSocial Committee and with Council of Europe, he led the journal Population & Avenir (www.population-demographie.org/revue03.htm) and Les analyses de Population & Avenirhttps://www.cairn.info/revue-analyses-de-population-et-avenir.htm. Gérard-François Dumont is Vice–President of the Academy of Geopolitics and administrator of the Paris Geographical Society. 

Among more than 900 publications, include the books : The roots of European identity (Economica), Political demography. The laws of geopolitics populations (Paris, Ellipses), Populations’s Geography (Paris, Armand Colin) and Geopolitics of Europe (Paris, PUF).