Deborah Glassman has been working in Tunisia, at the African Development Bank since 2009, and in development and education, working for Save the Children and the American Institutes for Research IDP, among other NGOs. She lived and worked in Paris from 1988-2003, as the Director for the Paris Center for Critical Studies, at the OECD, and as an independent consultant. She holds a Ph.D. in French from Yale University, has published on Marguerite Duras, and translated several works by French historian Francois Dosse.