Background
Her mother, Doctor Josiane Serre, was a chemist who became the director of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Jeunes Filles. Her father is Fields Medal and Abel prize winning mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre.
Her mother, Doctor Josiane Serre, was a chemist who became the director of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Jeunes Filles. Her father is Fields Medal and Abel prize winning mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre.
She holds a Doctor of Philosophy based on study of Simone de Beauvoir"s writings and life.
Monteil is one of the founders of the women"s rights movement in 1970 along with being a specialist on Simone de Beauvoir. Claudine Monteil is now a retired French diplomat since the end of 2014. She has been working at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on different issues including the relations between France and institutions of the United Nations as, among others, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, United Nations Population Fund and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. She is publishing in 2016 the first biography on Eve Curie, youngest daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, who was a heroe of World World War World War II
Her writings on the Beauvoirs, Sartre and French feminism, have been translated into multiple languages.