Antoine Arjakovsky is a French historian with a PhD in History (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales). Formerly a cooperation attaché at the French Embassy in Moscow and then deputy director of the French Institute in Kiev, he founded the Institute of Ecumenical Studies in Lviv in 2002. Having taught at several European and American universities, he is now director of research at the Collège des Bernardins. 

Since November 2023, he has been co-directing the Collège des Bernardins research seminar on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The research team from the Politics and Religions Department at the Collège des Bernardins and the IREMMO have set up a research and liaison group to find a way out of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Around fifty political figures, journalists, religious leaders and academics from Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, the United States, Russia and France was heard, and the work was carried out in close collaboration with the French and European authorities.

He has published several books on personalist democracy, ecumenical metaphysics, the history of Orthodoxy, and the history of European consciousness. He is also currently president of the Association of Christian Philosophers and administrator of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience based in Prague.

He is the author of several books on the history of Russia and Ukraine, such as Russia-Ukraine, from war to peace? (2014); Occident-Russie comment sortir du conflit? (The West and Russia: How to End the Conflict?) (2017); Voyage de Saint-Pétersbourg à Moscou, Anatomie de l’âme russe (Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow: Anatomy of the Russian Soul) (2018); Pour sortir de la guerre, vaincre l’agression russe contre l’Ukraine et la démocratie (Ending the War: Defeating Russian Aggression against Ukraine and Democracy) (DDB, 2023).