Jean-Christophe Bas is senior advisor of strategic development and partnerships at the United Nations secretariat of the Alliance for Civlizations. He served as development policy dialogue manager at the World Bank and set up innovative mechanisms of strategic dialogue between the World Bank and key constituencies around the world on development and poverty eradication challenges. Mr. Bas is a former executive director of the Aspen Institute in France and serves as its vice chairman of the advisory board. He was a professor of political sciences at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Lyon) and vice president of the European Fund for the Freedom of Expression. Mr. Bas is the author of L'Europe a la carte (Editions du Cherche-Midi), a book of reflections on Europe, published at the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.