Olivier Duhamel is a French university professor and politician.[1] He was a Socialist member of the European Parliament from 1997 to 2004.[1][2]
Olivier Duhamel was born on 2 May 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.[2]
He has taught at the University of Franche-Comté, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.[1] He was also a visiting professor at the University of Washington and New York University.[1] He is a faculty member at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, though he stopped teaching in 2010.[1][3][4][5]
He was an advisor to the Constitutional Council of France from 1983 to 1995, and to Georges Vedel in 1993 and Edouard Balladur in 2007.[1][5] He served as MEP from 1997 to 2004.[1][2]
He writes in the popular press for La Marseillaise and Valeurs Actuelles.[1] He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of another publication, POUVOIRS.[1][4][5][6] He is an editor for the European Constitutional Law Review.[1] He also appears on France Culture, LCI, and Europe 1.[1][4][5]
He is the Vice-President of Le Siècle.[7] He is also a member of the Club des Juristes, a legal think tank in France.[5]