Gérard Biard

journalist and editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo

Gérard Biard is a French journalist and editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. He believes that we can laugh at anything and that the only valid question is why we laugh at it. He has been associated with Charlie Hebdo since 1992. When the magazine’s Paris office was targeted in a terrorist attack in January 2015, Biard was in London for a conference. In May 2015, Biard and film critic Jean-Baptiste Thoret accepted the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award on behalf of Charlie Hebdo.