Lilian Thuram, born in Guadeloupe in 1972, started the foundation Education contre le racisme, pour l’égalité in 2008. 

He has written several books including My Black Stars (PUL, Liverpool, 2021), Seligmann Prize against Racism, Manifeste pour l’égalité (Autrement, 2012), Notre Histoire (Delcourt, 2014 and 2016), White Thinking (Hero, London, 2021). 

He was chief curator of the exhibition Exhibitions. The invention of the savage, at the Quai-Branly museum in 2011/2012. 

In 2014 he received the Kéba-Mbaye Foundation Ethics Prize in Senegal. He has been awarded an hononary doctorate in human sciences of the University of Stockholm in Sweden (2017), of the University of Stirling (2019) and University of Strathclyde at Glasgow (2024) in Scotland. 

In a previous life, he accomplished a prestigious career as an international footballer. Together with the French team, he won the world championship in 1998 and the European championship in 2000.