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The holder of an ‘agrégation’ in Economics and Social Science and a further agrégation from the Faculty of Law, Gwénaële Calvès defended her thesis on ‘Affirmative action in the United States’ in 1997. With a rich knowledge of the American experience, Gwénaële Calvès, a professor of Public Law at the university of Cergy-Pontoise and the University of Düsseldorf, currently works on French and European policies to combat discrimination. On this, she submitted a report in September 2004 to the Ministry for the Civil Service on the way in which one could recruit more people from an immigrant background to posts in administration. In 2010, she also published an essay entitled ‘Positive discrimination’, published by PUF (coll. Que sais-je ?, 3rd edition)
Since 2000, she had co-directed a multidisciplinary research group entitled ‘Anti-discrimination policies’ (Sciences-Po/CERI) and regularly advises several French regions with a measure of autonomy.
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