Chloé Maurel, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in the rue d'Ulm, has a degree in history, a doctorate in contemporary history, a research associate at IRIS, and teaches in the preparatory class at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. . She is a specialist in global history and the United Nations, and has published several books on these topics, such as History of UNESCO (L'Harmattan, 2010), Manuel of Global History (Armand Colin, 2014), History of United Nations ideas. The UN in 20 notions (L'Harmattan, 2015). She often speaks in the media (press, radio, television) about the UN.