Dr. Joël Kotek is a Professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Dr. Kotek is a member of several scientific committees including: Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah de Paris, the Jewish Museum of Warsaw, Mechelen Holocaust Museum, Foundation Aladdin (Paris), Evens Foundation (Antwerpen) and Yahad in Unum (Paris). He was the head of the Formation Department at the Mémorial de la Shoah/Centre de Documentation

juive contemporaine in Paris (2003-2006) and has been, since 2003, the Belgian correspondent of the Moshe Cantor Center on Antisemitism and Racism. He is also an ISGAP research fellow. Dr. Kotek has authored a number of important publications, including: La Shoah dans la Bande dessiné (2017), 1939, le quatrième partage de la Pologne (sld) (2015), Israël et les médias belges francophones au miroir du conflit gazaoui de l’été 2014 (2015), translated into English, ISGAP, NY (2015), Mickey à Gurs, les cahiers de Horst Rosenthal (2014), and Dictionnaire de la Shoah (2009).