Paul Sanders

Paul Sanders (born 23 September 1967, in Banbury, UK), MA (Paris IV), DEA (IEP Paris), PhD (Cambridge), FRHistS is an Anglo-German historian and management scholar. He is a full-time professor at Reims Management School in Reims, France. His teaching interests cover international relations (geopolitics), international ethics and emerging markets (Russia). His research articulates around the topic of duress ethics and leadership, and takes many of its cues from his earlier historical work. He also has an interest in critical studies involving memory, narratives and discourse. Sanders has a track record of challenging 'established truths'. His first book, The Ultimate Sacrifice (1998), was a significant factor in shifting UK public opinion on the controversial debate surrounding Channel Islands collaboration during the German occupation in World War 2. His second monograph is the standard academic reference on the illegal economy in Nazi-occupied Europe. In 2004, the Jersey Heritage Trust commissioned him to write a new official history of the Occupation of the Channel Islands. A special copy of this book was presented to HM the Queen on 9 May 2005. In 2010 Sanders advised Downing Street in conjunction with an award honouring 'British Heroes of the Holocaust'. He is currently co-writing a final monograph on resistance in the occupied Channel Islands (with Gillian Carr and Louise Willmot).