Nicolas Duvoux is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 8, France, Full Professor at the Geneva School of Social Sciences, Switzerland, and Director of the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy (GCP). His research focuses on issues of social solidarity, poverty, philanthropy, and social policy. He is the author of L'autonomie des assistés: Sociologie des politiques d'insertion (2009), Le Nouvel Age de la solidarité: Pauvreté, précarité et politiques publiques (2012), and Les oubliés du rêve américain: Philanthropie, État et pauvreté urbaine aux États-Unis (2015).