Yves Sintomer(www.sintomer.net)is professor of political science, co-director of the master in political science and member of the president’s board at Paris 8 University. He is Honorary Senior fellow at the French University Institute, one of the French most prestigious institutions, has a honorary degree (doctorat honoris causa), Liège University (Belgium), and is Associate member at Nuffield College, Oxford, Neuchâtel University (Switzerland) and Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has been invited scholar or professor at prestigious universities such as Harvard, Yale, University College London, Tsinghua University and Peking University, Science Po Paris, Frankfurt University and Berlin Humboldt University, and Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His most recent book is The Government of Chance. Sortition and Democracy from Athens to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2023 (translation Peking University Press 2024). He has written on participatory and deliberative democracy, political representation, and German and French sociology. His writings have been published in 20 languages.