Deputy director of IRASEC from 2006 to 2010
He did part of his studies in Beijing before starting his professional career in Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City. He was in charge of the Asia Department of Icosi (Institute for International Social Cooperation) and co-founded the association Asia Pacific Research. Based in South-East Asia, he was a press correspondent for several French and international titles before becoming deputy director of IRASEC from 2006 to 2010. He is the author of “Le (...)

Member of the team of ANR FORSEA
Yong Li is a sociologist and research fellow at the Dysolab laboratory, University of Rouen Normandy. His work is built around three main themes : the life courses of skilled Chinese migrants in France and their transnational mobility ; anti-Asian racism in France and the racial struggles of young people of Asian origin ; migration, cross-border e-commerce and digital labor in China. (...)

Head of Department at Thairath Daily.
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Weiqiang LIN is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, with concurrent affiliation at the National University of Singapore. He is a social and cultural geographer with interests in mobilities, air transport, logistics, migration, and transnationalism. He has published in a wide range of journals, including Mobilities, Journal of Transport Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. (...)

Bertil LINTNER was a senior writer for the Far Eastern Economic Review for more than 20 years, covering Burma and related issues. He now writes for Asia Times Online, the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and Jane’s Information Group in the UK. He is a recognized expert on Burmese issues as well as ethnic minorities, insurgencies and narcotics in Southeast and South Asia. (...)

Dr. Alexander Loch is a German psychologist and cultural anthropologist working for 10 years in various capacities for international developmental organisations. He managed the research- and development unit of the Instituto Catolico para Formação de Professores (2002-2005) in Baucau, edited a Tetum dictionary (2005) and a monograph about Psychosocial Reconstruction in East Timor (2007). He is academically affiliated with the Centre Asie du Sud Est in Paris (2008) as a Post-Doc researcher (...)

Member of the team of ANR FORSEA
Marine LOISY is an anthropologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in Paris. She is a researcher at LISE (UMR3320). Her research focuses on contemporary issues in tourism, structured around three main areas : labour and employment, territorial attractiveness, and heritage-making processes. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted both in France and Indonesia, she examines, on the one hand, the work of (...)

Geographer. Research fellow at the CNRS, specialist in Burma. His main research topics are geopolitics, urbanization and environment. He also teaches at the University of Bangkok and directs a master’s degree in Thailand.
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Resident Researcher from 2021 to 2023
Adjunct professor in the department of Anthropology of the University of the Philippines (Diliman) from February 1, 2023 until August 31, 2023.
elisabeth.luquin irasec.com
Elisabeth Luquin has a PhD in social anthropology and ethnology from the EHESS, a BA and MA degrees in Filipino and is qualified in sections 15 and 20 of the CNU (Nationnal Comission of the Universities). She is a lecturer in Filipino language and literature at the Institut (...)

Chris LYTTLETON is associate professor of anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney. He has researched and published widely on the dynamics of rapid social change and its health implications in areas of large-scale infrastructure development and/or frontier zones throughout the Greater Mekong Subregion. His most recent book is Intimate Economies of Development : Mobility, Sexuality, and Health in Asia (2014). (...)