Catherine Wihtol de Wenden

Wihtol de Wenden earned a PhD from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1986.^[2] She then joined the political science faculty of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, where she later became Research Director.^[3] She is also a senior researcher at the Institute for International Political Studies.^[4]

Wihtol de Wenden has been a consultant to the OECD, the Council of Europe, and the European Commission as well as an external expert to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.^[5] She was also a member of the French National Commission on Security Ethics (fr) from 2003 to 2011.^[6]

In 2014, she was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.^[4] In 2018, she was promoted to the rank of Officier.^[7] She also won the médaille d'honneur from the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 2017.^[4]

Wihtol has been vocal in the French media in support of loosening restrictions on migration to France.^{[8][9][10][11]}

• Citoyenneté, nationalité et immigration, Arcantère, 1987
• Les immigrés et la politique. Cent-cinquante ans d'évolution, Presses de la FNSP, 1988
• Les étrangers dans la cité. Expériences européennes, with Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison, La Découverte, 1993
• La bourgeoisie. Les trois âges de la vie associative issue de l'immigration, with R. Leveau, CNRS Ed., 2001. (pocket edition 2007, ISBN 978-2271065964)
• Atlas des migrations: Un équilibre mondial à inventer, 2012, ISBN 978-2746730816.
• Pour accompagner les migrations en Méditerranée, L'Harmattan, 2013, ISBN 978-2-343-01077-9
• L'Immigration. Découvrir l'histoire, les évolutions et les tendances des phénomènes migratoires, Eyrolles, 2016, ISBN 978-2-212-56472-3

• Officier, Legion of Honor^[7]
• Médaille d'honneur, French National Centre for Scientific Research^[4]