Vincenzo Cicchelli is an Associate Professor and Research Fellow at Ceped (Université de Paris/IRD). He is the former General Secretary of the European Sociological Association (ESA); the former founder of the ESA research network ‘Global, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Sociology’; and the former director of the multidisciplinary program ‘Sociétés Plurielles’ (Université Paris Sorbonne Paris Cité). He has been a Visiting Professor at Roma Tre (Italy), the Universidad de la Repùblica (Montevideo, Uruguay), the Universidad de Santander (Spain), and the University of Salerno (Italy). At Brill, he is the Editor-in-Chief (with Sylvie Octobre) of the ‘Global Youth Studies’. He is the author of many books and articles dealing with cosmopolitan sociology as an innovative approach to globalization. His book Pluriel et commun. Sociologie d’un monde cosmopolite (Paris, 2016) has been translated into English (Brill, 2018), Italian (Perugia, 2018), and Brazilian Portuguese (Sesc, 2018). Other recent books on cosmopolitanism and globalization are: (with Sylvie Octobre and Viviane Riegel, eds.) Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture (Brill, 2019); (with Sylvie Octobre) Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth (Palgrave, 2018). His forthcoming edited collection (with Sylvie Mesure, eds), Cosmopolitanism in Hard Times (Brill, 2020), has benefitted from the international intellectual environment provided by Societés Plurielles and Grip. This book seizes the paradoxical dialectic of enlightenment and counter-enlightenment, at work in the global world and insists on the resources that make cosmopolitanism still a real possibility even in these hard times. He is now working on a new international edited collection - “Reimaging the Cosmopolis. Living in a Confined Humanity” -that continues the debate on the power of the anti-universalist tendencies in the prism of the current pandemic. All these above experiences ad resources (as an international editor, researcher/author, visiting scholar) are put at Grip's service, where he is the director of International Relations and pursues the common goal to establish fruitful partnerships with institutes of Global South, East, and West.