A professor emeritus of the Instituts d'Etudes Politiques of Grenoble and Paris, Jean-Louis Quermonne has also taught at New York University and at the College of Europe in Bruges. After serving as director of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Grenoble and directed Grenoble's new University of Social Sciences, he was director of Research and University Teaching at the French Education Ministry. In 1998-99 he chaired the working group on the reform of EU institutions created by the French Commissariat Général du Plan.