Renaud Epstein is a sociologist, lecturer in political science at the University of Nantes, member of the Law and social change (University of Nantes/CNRS) and associate researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of Politics (ENS Cachan/Université Paris Ouest/CNRS). He also teaches in the master’s degree in Territorial and Urban Strategies at Sciences Po.
He published La rénovation urbaine. Démolition-reconstruction de l’Etat at Presses de Sciences Po in April 2013.