RIVKINE CONSEIL was founded by Jérome RIVKINE. A member of the Paris Bar with a doctorate in international relations, Jérome RIVKINE teaches at the Sorbonne Paris Nord University and the Paris Faculty of Law and Economics. He is involved in numerous organizations in the fields of health, sport and individual and collective well-being.
Jérome Rivkine holds a post-graduate diploma (DEA) in International Economic and Development Law from the University of Paris V in 1999, a post-graduate diploma of attorney-at-law from Paris Bar School in 2002 and a doctorate in International Relations (PhD thesis) from the University of Paris V in 2005.
He has worked as a lawyer since 2001 in major law firms both in Japan and France, such as BCW Associés, LMT Avocats and Ernst & Young.
In 2011, he founded RIVKINE AVOCATS, a “boutique law firm” specialized in general business law, dedicated to assist individuals and companies in their day-to-day affairs. He also teaches at a number of universities.
Affected by a cancer in 2013, he set aside his law practice to focus on the healthcare sector. He publishes a book (Les cinq saisons, L’Harmattan) in 2016, intervenes as speaker at conferences and provides contributions and articles to medical journals.
In 2018, he becomes a member of the board of directors at CAMI Sport & Cancer. In 2019 he is appointed as a patient-expert for the Fondation de France and he joins the Sport Health Insertion Committee.
In 2020, he cocreates the Association des Patients en Onco-Pneumologie de l’Hôpital Foch (APOP Foch), a patient organization located into the Hôpital Foch, committed to bring patient support and advocacy.
In 2022, he is graduated at the Université des Patients-Sorbonne of a university degree (DU) in Health Democracy; he is trained in Patient Therapeutic Education (PTE) at the same University.
In 2023, he joins the team of the Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord to teach “the patient perspective” at the General Medecine Department and raise awareness among general medical students on topics such as patient rights, the healthcare relationship and the co-construction of medical decisions.
In 2024, he was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the Union Nationale Sportive Léo Lagrange and the Union Régionale Ile-de-France Léo Lagrange, a multi-sport and affinity sports federation grouping 400 associations, whose aim is to deploy the educational and social function of sport in all its diversity: educating and integrating through sport, preventing all forms of inequality, cheating and violence, promoting access to citizenship and health through sport.
In the summer of 2024, he was selected by the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games as an Olympic torchbearer to carry, through it, values of hope and resilience for sick people and the virtues of sport-health.
