For the past 70 years, researchers and students from all different countries and backgrounds have elected the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) as their academic home, drawn by the pairing of in-depth analysis of the past and research explicitly devoted to understanding contemporary societies. Thanks to our global perspective and research-based learning, the EHESS has been an incubator in the social sciences; from the Annales to French theory to Thomas Piketty's historical analysis of modern capitalism, we have played a central role in the emergence of numerous paradigms in the social sciences and humanities. With over a thousand seminars per year, this institution, built upon the work of its professors such as Fernand Braudel, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Françoise Héritier or Claude Lévi-Strauss to name a few, stands at the heart of French and international intellectual life.