Bertrand Badie holds advanced graduate degrees in political science and twentieth-century history from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris (IEP), earned the state "Agrégation" in Political Science and a Institut des Langues Orientales diploma. He was awarded his doctorate in political science from the IEP in 1975.

He is professor at the IEP, director of publications at the Presses de Sciences Po (university press) as well as the Sciences Po graduate program in International Relations, and since February 2002 has directed the Rotary Foundation Center for International Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution.

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