Associated Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He holds a PhD in management (HDR), is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Sciences, graduated in Public Law, and held a Lavoisier Fellowship from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A former member of the board of the INTERCOM committee of ICOM, he is the editor of several books, and director of the series «Cultural Management» at l’Harmattan. Jean-Michel is the author of «Musées et culture, le financement à l’américaine», «La gestion des institutions culturelles. Musées, patrimoine, centres d’art», and «Les bulles de Bilbao, les musées après Frank Gehry».