Jean-Yves Camus is a political analyst and an Associate Research Fellow at IRIS.

He graduated from Science-Po Paris (field of study : public policy), holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Sorbonne University (Paris 1) and a DEA in Contemporary History from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (field of study : “The French Extreme Left and Israel”).

In addition, Jean-Yves Camus was a Researcher at CERA (Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Action sur le Racisme et l’Antisémitisme) and was in charge of research projects for the PNR 40+ “Left-wing Extremism” of the National Swiss Fund (2002-2004).

He is also a member of the European Consortium on Political Research and of the Task Force on Antisemitism at the European Jewish Congress.

In 2008, he supervised a research project at IRIS for the FRA (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights) on the islamophobic analysis in the French newspapers.