Jacqueline Hénard

Short Bio

Jacqueline Hénard was born in Berlin in 1957. She graduated (history and international relations) from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a correspondent in Eastern Europe (1986-1992) and in Berlin (1993-1996). In 1997, she took over the correspondent position for Die Zeit in Paris and moved to Radio France in 2002, where she built up the European editorial department. Jacqueline Hénard has interrupted her journalistic work several times for sabbaticals (at the London School of Economics, at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales in Paris and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) and has written books, including a history of West Berlin (2009) and a collection of essays on the deep structures of French society (2012). On the side, she consults for companies and think tanks with perspective analyses, most recently with a classification of recent German economic successes for the Cercle de l'Industrie. Jacqueline Hénard is a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.