Anne Monier

Dr. Anne Monier holds a Master’s degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a Ph.D in social sciences from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In September 2025, she joined the Geneva Center for Philanthropy as a Researcher to launch a new initiative on “Philanthropy, Democracy, and Just Transition.”

A specialist in philanthropy, she has published two books on the subject—Nos chers Amis Américains (PUF, 2019) and, with Sylvain Lefèvre, the collective book Philanthropes en démocratie (PUF/VDI, 2021)—as well as several academic articles and book chapters. She was a Researcher at the ESSEC Philanthropy Chair between 2020 and 2025 and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, Harvard University, and New York University (NYU). She is also affiliated with CERES (Centre de formation sur l'Environnement et la Société, École Normale Supérieure) and the University of Oxford (Environmental Change Institute). She teaches at the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs, ESSEC Business School, and the Catholic Institute of Paris.

After working on cultural philanthropy for several years, since 2020 she has been conducting a research project on “The environmental transition of the philanthropic sector in Europe” and is interested in how philanthropy is addressing environmental issues. In 2024, she published a study co-authored with the Fondation de France's Philanthropy and Society Observatory’s team: “Philanthropy in a changing climate: challenges and perspectives for a just transition.”