Paul Jorion is Doctor in the Social Sciences from the Free University Brussels. He holds MAs in sociology and social anthropology. He’s lectured at the universities of Brussels, Cambridge (Department of Social Anthropology), Paris VIII (Department of Psychoanalysis) and at the University of California at Irvine (Regents’ Lectureship). He was also a United Nations Officer (FAO), working on development projects in Africa.

Paul Jorion is a one-man band of the Cognitive Sciences and a well–respected expert in Artificial Intelligence (seminar at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme ; British Telecom Fellowship ; producer of a set of broadcasts on that theme on France–Culture ; numerous lectures at Yale University, École Normale Supérieure, etc.). Heir of (among others) Luc de Heusch, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Sir Edmund Leach, Jacques Lacan and Georges-Théophile Guilbaud, his training in social anthropology has led him on various field trips, be it on the Island of Houat in Brittany or in West Africa. He is the author of several books, among which Les pêcheurs de Houat (Hermann: 1