Docteur d'État en droit (Bordeaux, 1979), agrégé des Facultés de droit (1980), doctor h.c. of the universities of Louvain-la-Neuve, Aristotle of Thessalonica, Liège and Buenos Aires, Alain Supiot is Professor Emeritus of the Collège de France and corresponding member of the British Academy (2015). Over the course of his career, he has held successive professorships at the University of Poitiers and then Nantes (UMR-CNRS 6028), and was a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2001), before being elected to the Collège de France in 2012 - where he held until 2019 the chair État social et mondialisation: analyse juridique des solidarités. From 1998 to 2000, he chaired the Conseil national du développement des sciences humaines et sociales, and from 2016 to 2018, he was a member of the World Commission on the Future of Work. During his career, he has spent several years researching abroad (1981 : Institute of Industrial Relations, Berkeley ; 1989/1990 : European University Institute, Florence ; 1997/1998 : Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin).
In 1995, he founded the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange-Guépin in Nantes, followed in 2008 by the Institut d'études avancées, whose mission is to provide scientific residencies for scholars from the countries of the " Sud " and the " Nord ". In 2025, he was awarded the Bob Hepple Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labour Law in Bangkok.
His work has focused on two complementary fields : labor law and legal theory.
