Paul Sanders, MA (Paris IV), DEA (Sciences Po Paris), PhD (Cambridge), FRHistS (born 23 September 1967 in Banbury, UK), is an Anglo-German historian and leadership scholar. He is a full-time professor in the department of economics, culture and international affairs at NEOMA Businss School, Reims (France). His teaching interest lies in the area of leadership, ethics and international affairs, and he is a commentator on Russian and European affairs. His research addresses the topic of leadership ethics, in particular the problem of dirty hands. He is currently engaged in a study of duress leadership which uses historical cases ranging from British bombing policy in World War II, the dilemmas of occupation, the Holocaust in Hungary, and the Algerian War. In 2013 his realist critique of the idealist underpinnings of international CSR won an Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award. In parallel, Sanders has established a track record as the leading historian on the German occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II. Following in the wake of Madeleine Bunting's Model Occupation (1995), his first book, The Ultimate Sacrifice (1998), provided a corrective to a debate that over-emphasised the factor 'collaboration' (to the detriment of other narratives). The study suggested that defying the occupier was not the feat of an insignificant minority, but involved much larger numbers. In 2004 the Jersey Heritage Trust commissioned Sanders to write a new official history of the Occupation, a project that gave vital impulses to a growing literature in the field. A special copy of the book was presented to HM the Queen, on 9 May 2005. In 2010 Sanders advised Downing Street regarding the inclusion of three Channel Islanders in the 'British Heroes of the Holocaust' award. He has appeared as an expert in John Nettles' The Channel Islands at War (2010) and Tony Robinson's Walking through History (2014). The Ultimate Sacrifice also featured the first authoritative account of the story of Louisa Gould, a Jerseywoman who hid a Russian forced worker, and who was deported to Ravensbrück, where she was gassed in February 1945. This story was adapted by screenwriter Jenny Lecoat and turned into a feature film, Another Mother's Son (2016). Wikipedia
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