Editorial Director, Le Monde

Sylvie Kauffmann is a foreign affairs columnist and editorial director at the French newspaper Le Monde. She is also a regular contributor to the opinion pages of the Financial Times and has been a contributing writer for the New York Times. 

She was the editor-in-chief of Le Monde in 2010-2011. She joined the newspaper in 1987 as Moscow correspondent. Since then, she has been Eastern and Central Europe correspondent, US correspondent based in Washington DC, New York Bureau Chief and reporter-at-large in Asia, based in Singapore. 

 Prior to joining Le Monde, Sylvie Kauffmann worked for Agence France-Presse as a foreign correspondent, in London, New Caledonia (South Pacific), Warsaw and Moscow. 

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

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. 

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