Yves Mény is a political scientist and past president of the European University Institute in Florence. He has also taught at the University of Rennes, Paris II, and Sciences Po, as well as many other universities overseas. Among his publications are La Corruption de la République (Fayard, 1992), Par le peuple, pour le peuple. Populismes et démocraties (Fayard, 2000 - with Yves Surel), Démocraties imparfaites (Presses de Sciences Po, 2019) .