Jean-Marc Coicaud is a French and American legal and political theorist focusing on global issues, among numerous other topics.
His professional trajectory has combined serving as a policy practitioner at the national, regional, and global levels, and as a scholar and professor in academia.
This led to his second doctorat d'Etat, granted by Sciences Po, on the issue of political legitimacy and responsibility, with his dissertation eventually being published in a variety of languages.
Coicaud has been a visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and has taught at The New School for Social Research (New York).
In addition, he has been a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law, a visiting scholar at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University (Beijing), and a visiting scholar at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae at Academia Sinica (Taipei).