Françoise Vergès (born 23 January 1952) is a French political scientist, historian, film producer, independent curator, activist and public educator.

Her father, the son of a doctor and consul during the colonial era,[3] has been a French deputy, member of the European Parliament, senator, president of the Regional Council of Réunion and mayor of Le Port.

After running a bookshop in Saint-Denis (La Librairie des Mascareignes) for a few years, Laurence Deroin worked for the newspaper Témoignages, where she ran a column on the status of women.

She holds a PhD in Political Science, from the University of California, Berkeley in May 1995, a thesis published under the title Monsters and revolutionaries: Colonial family romance and grooming.

The journalist Pierrot Dupuy filed an unsuccessful civil suit against Paul Vergès for conflict of interest in appointing his daughter to the position.

MCUR's scientific project was subsequently terminated after strong opposition expressed at the polls and the election victory of Didier Robert to the Réunion Regional Council.

Leading her feminist and anti-racist struggles, Françoise Vergès has collaborated with the association Rualité created by the hip-hop artist Bintou Dembélé.

[16] Françoise Vergès signed the calls to the Marches for Justice and Dignity, as well as a large number of petitions defending differentialist and "decolonial" positions, including "Stop the Cyberbullying Against the Controversial Lallab Association"; "Against media lynching and slanderous anti-racists"; an intolerable persecution against the Traore family ";" We can disagree with the ideas of Houria Bouteldja, so let's debate ";" For the continuation of the Fight against Islamophobia conference", the petition of support to Sonia Nour following her statements relating a terrorist to a martyr, the petition of support to Tariq Ramadan indicted for rape, accusing the French justice of unequal treatment and / or racism, along with Houria Bouteldja, Sihame Assbague, Marwan Muhammad, Alain Gresh, Nabil Ennasri and François Burgat.