Geoffrey Pleyers holds a BA in sociology from the University of Liege (2000) and a master's degree (2001) and a doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2006).
During this period, he organizes conferences on social movements in different countries including Mexico, Romania, Hong Kong, France, Belgium and Palestine.
[5] In July 2018, he was elected vice-president for Research of the International Sociological Association, for a four-year term.
Revista sobre Adolescencia y Juventud (Spain), Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques (Belgium), Politique et société (Canada).
[9] This joint project by the Research Committee 47 from the ISA and the website Open Democracy aims at providing critical and empirically based outlooks on social movements and new expressions of social and cultural transformations, the ones which make the media headlines and those which discreetly transform daily life and politics alike, at the local and global scales.