Catherine Wihtol de Wenden

About the author

Born in Soissons in 1950, Catherine Wihtol de Wenden is a French political scientist whose career has been shaped by a sustained focus on migration. As Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a senior researcher at the Institute for International Political Studies, she has established herself as one of France's leading specialists in migration studies. Beyond her academic work, she is an active advocate for the right to immigration in France, combining scholarly rigor with civic engagement on one of the era's most contested policy questions.