Biography
Frédéric Martel is an academic, journalist and a New York Times bestseller author.
As an academic, Martel is a professor of creative economies at Zurich University for the Arts (ZHdK) and a researcher at the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE/ZHdK). He has been researcher fellow at the CERI, Center for International Studies, at Sciences Po-Paris and advised the European Commission as a member of New Narrative for Europe, the cultural task force of the former UE president.
Martel has a PhD in Social science and four master degrees in Law, Political science, Philosophy, and Social science. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and taught at Sciences Po-Paris, ESSEC-Paris and at the HEC's MBA (France). He has been invited as a key note speaker in dozens of universities around the world.
As a journalist, Frédéric Martel is the producer and anchor man of the weekly radio program " Soft Power " on French National Public Radio (France Culture/Radio France).
Books and publications : see below.
Publication
Martel is the author of eleven books, including "On Culture in America" (Gallimard, 2006) and three international best-sellers : "Mainstream : On the Global War on Culture and Medias" (Flammarion, 2010 ; translated in 12 languages) ; "Smart, On the internets" (Stock, 2014 ; translated in 10 languages) and "Sodoma/In the Closet of the Vatican" (Robert Laffont, 2019 ; translated in 20+ languages and a New York Times best-seller).