Paul Sanders (historian)

For the American politician, see Paul Sanders (politician).

Paul Sanders (born 23 September 1967) is a British academic, focusing on contemporary history and leadership studies. He is a full-time professor in theDepartment of Strategy at NEOMA Business School, Reims, France. His teaching interests lie in the areas of leadership, ethics and international relations, and he is a media commentator on Russian and European affairs.^[1]

Writings

In his thematic history The British Channel Islands under German Occupation 1940–1945 (2005) Sanders provided an account of the experience, including economics and ethics.^[2] This publication followed upon a previous work on the occupation of Jersey, tilted The Ultimate Sacrifice (1998).^[3] This book's findings were cited in the decision to recognize Channel Islanders with posthumous 'British Heroes of the Holocaust' awards, in 2010.^[4] In 2023-24 Sanders was chair and report compiler of the Lord Pickles Alderney Expert Review.^[5]

Sanders has also written a history of the black market in Nazi-occupied France (2001 Histoire du marché noir: 1940–1946) and 2014 Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands: German Occupation, 1940–45, which was co-written with two other authors.^[6][7] His recent research focus has shifted to History and Leadership studies, on which he published five articles in the academic journal Leadership.^[8]