The General Secretary, Professor André Miroir, is the academic coordinator of Ceris programmes. Formerly senior professor of political science and head of the department of Politics at the Free University of Brussels, he lectures in the framework of the Master of European and International law of the Université Paris Sud and has been visiting professor at the Universities of Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Vilnius, Riga, Kiev and Moscow. During the last fifteen years he has coordinated several projects of university cooperation in the framework of Med Campus, Tempus Phare or Tacis and more recently Grundtvig 4. Professor André Miroir is the initiator of intensive courses entitled Post Graduate Certificates and devoted to Europe in the world, conflict management & peacekeeping, security in the Mediterranean & the Middle East. Professor André Miroir is in charge of all administrative and managerial dealings of the programmes. He is assisted by a staff of administrative or research assistants. The research assistants also help to prepare the textbooks, the seminar readings and co-ordinate the compilation course proceedings.
Mr Nicolas Cornil is the CERIS Project Manager. He is responsible for various internal development projects. He was responsible for organizing a number of educational programs in cooperation with the EU. Mr. Cornil is responsible for communications and Web development strategy of the Research Center. He is equally the initiator of the partnership between CERIS and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva-Switzerland. Together with Prof. Mohammad-Reza Djalili, he is the spirit of the review “Journal of International & Strategic Studies” published by Ceris. This journal is an innovative tool dedicated to the latest research in the field of international relations and development. Mr. Cornil has also developed a socio-economic development program in Burundi supported by CERIS.
Mrs Nadia Karorero is the CERIS Academic Manager. She is a graduate of Political Science & international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve. Sub-Saharan Africa is her favorite subject. She is the author of a brilliant thesis on the Great Lakes Region of Africa captioned: " The Forming Process of the Ethnic Split in Burundi ". She is responsable for the daily organisation of the courses and coordinates the tasks of the research and teaching assistants. Mrs. Karorero equally organizes the new Ceris training : " Master of Arts in Development Policy " that she has initiated. Together with Mr. Cornil, she has made an outstanding contribution to the achievement of a socio-economic development program in Burundi.
The scientific board guarantees the scientific quality of the programme. The Board acts as think tank responsible of the content of the programme of lectures, which is adapted every year to the rapidly changing international scene. The Scientific Board is chaired by professor Daniel Dormoy, senior professor of International & EU law at the Faculté Jean Monnet – Université Paris Sud-11 and president of the Collège d’Etudes Interdisciplinaires - CEI of the same university. Members : Prof. Daniel Barbu (University of Bucarest, former Dean of the Faculty of Political Science), Prof. Pascal Boniface (Université de Paris VII, IRIS), Prof. Mohamed Reza Djalili (Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales - Genève), Prof. Simon Pierre Ekanza (Université d’Abidjan, ancien Doyen de la Faculté des Lettres), Prof. Guy Olivier Faure (Université de Paris V – Sorbonne), Prof. George Joffe (University of Cambridge), Prof. Jorg Monar (University of Sussex), Prof. Patrick Morgan (University of California - UCI), Prof. Paul Okojie (Manchester Metropolitan University), Prof Jacques Rupnik (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris – Ceri), Prof. Jamie Shea (Nato), Prof. Howard Nicholas (Institute of Social Studies - Den Haag), Prof. Jan Aart Scholte (Warwick University) & Prof. Charles Zorgbibe (Université de Paris I - Sorbonne).
