Diplômée de Sciences-Po et de Lettres Classiques, Carol Isoux est journaliste en Asie depuis une dizaine d’années, d’abord en Chine, puis en Thaïlande où elle vit actuellement. Elle couvre l’actualité politique, économique et culturelle de la région sud-est asiatique pour de nombreux médias français (Libération, l’Obs, Europe1...) et internationaux (South China Morning Post). Elle est présidente de l’antenne Thaïlande de l’Union Internationale de la Presse Francophone (UPF). (...)

Resident Researcher from 2008 to 2010
Ethnologist at the CNRS since 1992, he works on border populations, migration dynamics, ethnic and social resilience. He lived for several years with the Moken Austronesians, marine nomads of the Mergui archipelago, in Thailand and Burma. He recently coordinated Thailand contemporaine with Stéphane Dovert (Bangkok-Paris, IRASEC-Les Indes savantes, 2011) and published a book on Southern Thailand (The Cultural Roots of Violence in Malay Southern Thailand, (...)

Larry Jagan holds a Masters in Education (1979), Bachelor of Arts, with honours in History (1971) and a Diploma of Education (1972) from Monash University in Australia. For the last eight years, he has worked as a freelance journalist and political analyst based in Bangkok, writing extensively on Burma and the region. Previously he worked for the BBC World Service as News and Current Affairs editor for the Asia and Pacific Region. (...)

Director of IRASEC from 2025
Deputy director from 2010 to 2014
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Dr Jérémy Jammes, Director of IRASEC since September 2025, is Professor in Social Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, working at the Lyon Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Lyon) before his move to IRASEC. He obtained his PhD (with Distinction) in 2006 in Social anthropology (Paris X), and his Habilitation à diriger des recherches (INALCO) in 2019. He was Director of International (...)

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Resident Researcher from 2013 to 2015
Bruno Jetin is an economist, associate professor at the Institute of Asian Studies, University of Brunei Darussalam, and lecturer in economics at the University of Paris Nord, Sorbonne Paris Cité. His research focuses on Asean, inequality, social cohesion and growth regimes. He published the article “Distribution of income, labour productivity and competitiveness : is the Thai labour regime sustainable ?” (Cambridge Journal of (...)

Experienced cognitive skills trainer and early childhood educator with a demonstrated history of working in the educational services industry. Skilled in Curriculum Development, Public Speaking, Facilitation, Teacher Training, Coaching, Research, and Creative Writing.
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Dr. David R. Johnson is an American M.D. and M.P.H graduate from the University of Minnesota Medical School, who went on to complete his psychiatry residency at the University of Washington in Seattle and a Cultural Psychiatry Fellowship and Masters Degree in Public Health (Epidemiology) at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Johnson serves as a lead clinician for the medical and psychiatric services of the Center for the Victims of Torture where treatment to torture survivors takes place and (...)

Emma Josso studied history and geography at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, then international relations at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Strasbourg, where she wrote a thesis on Thailand’s borders with Cambodia and Burma, before completing an internship at IRASEC in May-August 2022.
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Winner of the "Environment and sustainable development" scholarship (2020)
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Clara JULLIEN, PhD student in urban planning (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Geography-Cities UMR 8504) : The urban refuge : the urban insertion of environmental displaced persons in Vietnam - (2020, "Environment and sustainable development" grant)
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought international tourism in Thailand to a standstill, leading to business closures, unemployment, and significant income losses for workers in the sector. Based on a qualitative survey conducted in Chiang Mai—based on 101 interviews between July 2021 and February 2022—this research examines the strategies adopted by the tourism workforce in response to the crisis. Findings reveal that public assistance, which was limited and sometimes discriminatory, proved (...)