Samuel Ghiles-Meilhac earned his PhD in sociology at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He wrote his dissertation on the Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France (CRIF), the Jewish political umbrella organization. He teaches at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris and Lille and is the author of Le CRIF 1943 à nos jours: De la Résistance juive à la tentation du lobby (Paris: Robert Laffont, 2011).