Monique Canto-Sperber has taught at several French universities, as well as at Stanford University (USA). She was Director of the École normale supérieure (ENS Ulm) from 2005 to 2012, before helping to create Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) in 2011 and serving as its President from 2012 to 2014.
Her numerous publications include Dictionnaire d'éthique et de philosophie morale (1996), Philosophies grecques (1997), Sauver la liberté d'expression (2021) and Une école qui peut mieux faire (2022).