geographer, doctorate from Bordeaux III University, co-director of Paddi (Centre for Foresight and Urban Studies), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).
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Anne Raffin is Associate Professor in Sociology at the National University of Singapore, specialized in historical and comparative sociology. She has written on colonial and contemporary Vietnam. Her recent publications include “Youth Mobilization and Ideology : Cambodia from the Late Colonial Era to the Pol Pot Regime” (Critical Asian Studies, 2012) and “Native Policy in Colonial State Formation in Pondicherry (India) and Vietnam : Recasting Ethnic Relations—1870–1920s”, in Sociology and Empire (...)

Dr. Sauwakon is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University. She was a Fulbright scholar (1988-1993) and a Takemi Fellow in International Health at Harvard School of Public Health (1995-1996). She received a BS in Pharmacy, an MA in Public Administration, and a PhD in Public Administration (Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York at Albany). Her dissertation won the best dissertation award from the U.S. (...)

Resident Researcher from 2017 to 2019
Fields of interest
Anthropology of Southeast Asia, mostly Thai studies Environmental issues, natural resources management, notably water, in Buddhist context Recent developments of the mythic and ritual complex around the figure of Nagas in Northeastern Thailand Anthropology of nature and anthropology of communication : relations between human and non-human such as other animals, plants, spirits, machines, etc. Thai boxing as one of the main (...)

Born in 1974, Nicolas Revise graduated in Political Science and Public Law. In 1996, he moved to Bangkok. He is a correspondent for the economic daily Les Echos in Southeast Asia and works for the local office of Agence France Presse.
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Cyril ROBIN is a researcher attached to the Centre of Studies and International Researches of Sciences Po where he defended his thesis in December 2007. His research on the role of caste in politics in India led him to study the evolution of the sociology of elected officials in the Legislative Assembly of the states of Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand. He is currently working on the place and role of caste associations in the governance of the Delhi metropolis. (...)

Director of IRASEC from 2012 to 2016
I studied simultaneously at Paris-X Nanterre (bachelor’s degree in ethnology), at INALCO - then Langues’O - (DREA in Burmese), and at EHESS (thesis defended in 1985). My training was completed by courses at the Collège de France in Lucien Bernot’s chair of “Sociography of Southeast Asia”. In the wake of this master, but also of A.G. Haudricourt and the “Techniques and Culture” team (Cresswell, Sigaut, Mahias, Lemonnier), I was initially interested in gestures, (...)

Mina Roces a soutenu sa thèse à l’université du Michigan et enseigne dans le Département de philosophie et d’histoire de l’université de New South Wales à Sydney en Australie. Elle est l’auteur de trois livres : Women’s Movements and “the Filipino Woman” 1985-2008 (University of Hawaii, 2012, 277 p.), Kinship Politics in Post-War Philippines, The Lopez Family, 1945-2000 (Manille, De la Salle University Press, 2001), and Women, Power and Kinship Politics : Female Power in Post-War Philippines (...)

Deputy Director of IRASEC from 2002 to 2006

Journalist for Cambodge Soir, Phnom Penh correspondent for Radio France Internationale (RFI). Deputy Director of the Institute for Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC). He also co-authored Après guerre(s), edited by Rémy Ourdan (Autrement).
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Dr. Marie-Corinne Rodriguez is a French historian (PhD, University of Provence) specializing in Vietnam. In 2005, answering a special Pierre Le Roux’ request and funded by the Spanish Foundation ANESVAD, she undertook focused research on prostitution and human trafficking from the end of the 19th c up to the beginning of the 20th c, based on the National Archives of Vietnam and the French Colonial Archives in Aix-en-Provence. (...)