Sylvie Kauffman

Sylvie Kauffmann is a foreign affairs columnist and former editor-in-chief of Le Monde. She is a regular contributor to the opinion pages of the Financial Times and has been a contributing writer for the New York Times.

She spent most of her career as a foreign correspondent, first for Agence France-Presse, then for Le Monde which she joined while in Moscow. She covered the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the transition of Central Europe to democracy and market economy. She later spent eight years as a correspondent in the United States, and also worked as a reporter-at-large in Asia, based in Singapore.

Sylvie Kauffmann is the author of “Les Aveuglés – Comment Paris et Berlin ont laissé la voie libre à la Russie” (2023, Editions Stock), a book about France, Germany and Putin’s Russia, which she researched as a fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin in 2022. She is a Board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

She graduated from the Faculté de droit d’Aix-en-Provence, L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence, Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao, Spain) and the Centre de Formation des Journalistes in Paris.