Francois Ewald

François Robert Ewald is Professor of Insurance at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Paris) and Director of the Ecole nationale d’assurances (Paris). Professor Ewald chairs the Precautionary Principle Observatory and the scientific council of the Fondation pour l’innovation politique (Paris) and he is a Fellow of the French Technological Academy. His research interests are in the fields of risk and the philosophy of risk, and his publications include L’Etat providence (1986), Le Principe de precaution (2001, 2008). Born in Bourdeaux, François Ewald pursued his interests in philosophy, law and psychoanalysis at university and obtained his PhD Political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris). He was Michel Foucault’s assistant at the Collège de France (Paris) and is the editor of Michel Foucault’s Dits et Ecrits (with Daniel Defert) and the Michel Foucault’s lessons in the Collège de France (with Alessandro Fontana).