Olivier Nay

Olivier Nay is Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a member of the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP). His fields are development studies, international public affairs, global governance and international organizations, with recent work on institutional change, public administration reform, knowledge production and the transnational circulation of global norms. A first Alliance visiting professorship at SIPA in 2017 allowed him to conduct fieldwork at the United Nations Secretariat and the World Bank; he returned to Columbia as a visiting professor in 2023-24.