BIOGRAPHY

” Romuald Sciora is one of the most brilliant representatives of the new generation of intellectuals committed to the world stage.”  Ambassador François Delattre

Author, essayist, columnist and documentary filmmaker born in Paris in 1970, Romuald Sciora is a recognized specialist in the United Nations and in American foreign policy.

As a writer, he has published, among many others, four books on the UN and an essay on the UN General Assembly. As a filmmaker, he has produced a dozen political documentaries, including a TV series devoted to the United Nations, broadcast in more than 20 countries.

He is the only person to have had the opportunity to meet and interview several times all of the UN Secretaries-General, from Kurt Waldheim to Ban Ki-Moon.

He has lived in the United State for almost twenty years. From 2011 to 2016, he served as President of the French-American Global Forum, a not-for-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. On this occasion, he co-organized and led a large number of conferences and seminars with the European Union, research centers such as CSIS and the Brookings Institution, magazines such as The Atlantic, Newsweek and Foreign Affairs and newspapers such as The Washington Post and The New York Times. Till 2019, he was the host of Le monde diplomatique Debates, an international program of conferences sponsored by the famous French monthly Le monde diplomatique.

Currently Associate Research Fellow at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs - IRIS -where he leads the Political and Geostrategic Observatory of the United States, he also works regularly with universities such as New York University and American University in Washington and as a consultant for different institutions and NGOs. He appears regularly in the media, whether in North and South America, Europe, Russia or the Middle East, to comment on international news.

His latest books, Who Wants to Kill the U.N.?, co-written with Anne-Cécile Robert,  Poor John – America in the Time of COVID-19, Valiant Woman and Should we be afraid of wokeism? were published in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2023. In the meantime, the complete collection of his interviews with UN Secretaries-General was published in a special issue of The International Politics Reviews dedicated to his work.

Romuald Sciora has been awarded the insignia of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres – Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters – and of Officer in the National Order of the Cedar.