Jean-Claude Colliard (15 March 1946 – 27 March 2014) was a French academic and senior public servant. Colliard was born in

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. He graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), and obtained a Ph.D. in law from the

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. He also held an

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in Public Law and Political Science. He was a member of the

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(from 1998 to 2007), and later was the chancellor of Université Panthéon Sorbonne Paris 1, France's top secondary institution. He was Chief of Staff for President

François Mitterrand François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was President of France, serving under that position from 1981 to 1995, the longest time in office in the history of France. As First Secretary of the Socialist Party, he ...

from 1982 to 1988. He was Chief of Staff to

Laurent Fabius Laurent Fabius (; born 20 August 1946) is a French politician serving as President of the Constitutional Council since 8 March 2016. A member of the Socialist Party, he previously served as Prime Minister of France from 17 July 1984 to 20 Marc ...

, President of the National Assembly from 1988 to 1992. He was a recognized specialist in Comparative Government. He was director of the Department of Political Science at University Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1995. He died on 27 March 2014, aged 68.

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