geographer, doctor of the University of Paris VII-Denis Diderot, research fellow at IRD/UMR Prodig, co-responsible for the transversal action "Promotion and dissemination of geographical and urban information", researcher associated with the CASE (CNRS), member of the GEMDEV steering committee.
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Dr Elisabeth Peyroux is Research Director at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated to the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) and to CNRS@CREATE in Singapore. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Paris X-Nanterre and is a former Deputy Director of the research unit Prodig (2019-2024). Her recent research focuses on the role of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence in urban governance and planning in Southern (...)

Resident Researcher from 2020 to 2022
Associate Professor in Geography at the University of Brest (UBO)
emmanuelle.peyvel irasec.com
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Fields of interest
Geography of Southeast Asia, mostly Vietnamese Studies Hill Stations and tourism in mountains Tourism and leisure in a postcolonial context Tourism and Nation building in a postsocialist context Tourism practices and social change since Đổi mới Gamification of urban spaces and land speculation
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Dr Phanouvong’s main interest areas include risk-based regulatory approach and medical product quality assurance and control systems strengthening. He completed his under and postgraduate studies at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary, where he earned a PhD in 1991. In 1998, he gained another PhD at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia.
Dr Phanouvong has over 28 years of national, regional and international experiences in medicines policy, regulation, research, and practical (...)

IRASEC 2014 field grants awardee
Souvanxay Phetchanpheng is an anthropologist, associate member of International Research Unit the International Unit TransVIHMI (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, INSERM, Université de Montpellier). Since 2005, his research focuses on the transmission of knowledge, migration of young people from rural areas to urban areas for educational purposes and the process of social mobility in Laos. (...)

Resident Researcher from 2011 to 2013
Vatthana Pholsena is a research fellow at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research). She taught at the National University of Singapore between 2004-2006 and 2014-2017 and was posted to IRASEC between 2011 and 2013. Her current research covers the social and political history of the Cold War from the vantage point of the Lao-Vietnamese and Lao-Thai borderlands, and the nexus between state, local elite, and ethnicity in post-socialist (...)

Shanthini PILLAI is Associate Professor at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Malaysia (UKM). Her research interests are anchored primarily in ethnic diversity, diaspora and transnationalism in literary and cultural texts with particular reference to the global South Asian diaspora. She is author of Colonial Visions, Postcolonial Revisions: Images of the Indian diaspora of Malaysia (2007) as well as numerous (...)

Sor Rattanamanee Polkla is a lawyer working in the Human rights field since 2001. Rattanamanee has been especially involved with justice issues in the Southern border provinces and is the coordinator of Community Resource Centre (CRC), an NGO based in Thailand which is a local partner of the Asian Human Right Commission (AHRC) based in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at Thammasat University, Bangkok. (...)

Roland Poupon holds a degree in agricultural engineering (ENSIA – Agro Paris Tech) and a Ph.D. in geography (University of Toulouse-Le Mirail). He has lived in Southeast Asia for over twenty years. After serving as the first expatriate in Asia for a major French retail group, he is now an international consultant in the agriculture and food sectors. He also heads a group of service companies in this sector (consulting, brokerage, trading, and food services) with operations in China, (...)

steven.prigent u-bordeaux.fr
Steven PRIGENT is an anthropologist affiliated with the University of Bordeaux and the Passages Laboratory (CNRS UMR 5319), and a member of the Association for Exchange and Training in Khmer Studies (AEFEK). He has been conducting surveys in rural Cambodia since 2008. He has just completed a monographic work entitled “Les Vagabonds et la Dette. L’éducation au Cambodge en milieu rural”. His current work focuses on the role played by schools - state, (...)