James Brown, Ph.D
Originally from the US, James attended McGill University (Canada) where he obtained a B.A. in Political Science. He pursued his graduate studies in France having first obtained a DEA in Political Studies at Sciences Po Paris followed then by a DEA in the History of Philosophy at Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. He completed his studies with a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Paris X – Nanterre.
James has experience working and teaching within the French higher education system as well as with British and American universities. He contributed to the build-up of the Direction of International Affairs at Ecole Centrale Paris (now CentraleSupelec) as Deputy Director heading up the Office of International Mobility. He later spearheaded the creation of the International Relations Office at the Institut Catholique de Paris. More recently, he developed the Paris campus of an American university through optimizing its operations, the growth of its student population and by the renewal of its accreditation with its US-based agency.