Jean-Marie Carriere, S.J.

Jean-Marie Carrière, S.J. is a Jesuit biblical scholar and emeritus professor of Bible at the Facultés Loyola Paris (formerly Centre Sèvres). He taught Old Testament at Centre Sèvres from 1989 to 2014 and served as director of the first cycle of studies from 1999 to 2005. He has also taught and worked extensively in the area of migration and refugee accompaniment. He served as Country Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) France from 2006 to 2012 and subsequently as Regional Director of JRS Europe.

Fr. Carrière obtained his Doctorate in Theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1997, with a dissertation on Le concept du politique dans le Deutéronome (The Concept of the Political in Deuteronomy). His scholarly work focuses particularly on biblical exegesis, political thought in the Bible, migration, exile, hospitality, and the relationship between faith and contemporary social and political questions.