Richard Robert is the editor of Telos, a European think tank based in Paris. He started his career in 1995 as an assistant professor in University of Caen and University of Paris-IV Sorbonne. From 2002 to 2009 he was the chief editor of CFDT Cadres, a quarterly magazine published by a French labour union, and from 2012 to 2018 he was the executive director of Paris Innovation Review. His latest book, co-written with Elie Cohen, is La Valse européenne (Fayard: 2021).