Architect, President of the Mekong Environment and Resource Institute, Vice President of Navamindradhiraj University, Assistant Professor at Chulalongkorn University, former Vice-Governor of Bangkok (Thailand).
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Nuno Canas Mendes holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and is an Assistant Professor at The Advanced Institute for Social and Political Sciences at The Technical University of Lisbon. He is also a Research Fellow at the Orient Institute where he co-ordinates a research project on "State-building/State-failure debate in International Relations : The Case of East Timor" financed with a grant from The Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation. His main research (...)

Dr. Dominique Menguy is a French social anthropologist and a field expert of Laos, Thailand, and Indonesia. As a former French Police officer in charge of investigations with the Children Protection Department (1987-1997), he is very knowledgeable on human trafficking and criminality. He spent several years (1998-2003) in Lao PDR. undertaking field investigations on his own in social anthropology and history and gained a good knowledge of the situation of the ethnic groups in northern (...)

Eugénie Mérieau is a legal and political expert and more especially about Thailand where she lived nearly ten years. Doctor of INALCO since 2017 (Prize of the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris in Law and Political Science), teacher at Sciences-Po, she is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Göttingen (Germany). Author of the booklet Les Chemises Rouges de Thaïlande (IRASEC, 2013), she has been a faithful contributor to Gavroche magazine for many years.
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Resident Researcher from 2017 to 2019
Alexandra de Mersan is an anthropologist, senior lecturer at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) and statutory member of the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (Case, CNRS/EHESS, Paris). Its research field is Burma. His research focuses on the relationship between Buddhism, ethnicity and national construction in Arakan State. She is the author of "The 2010 election and the making of a parliamentary representative" published in (...)

Laurent METZGER is a professor at the University of La Rochelle, author of "The Muslim minority in Singapore" Ed L' Harmattan Paris 2003.
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Peter Michael, journalist specialized on organised crime, provided very informative elements on the triads and how they develop their business from the street level to the transnational crime.
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Carl Middleton is Deputy Director for International Research in the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) and a lecturer with the MA in International Development Studies Program (MAIDS) in the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. His research interests are the politics and policy of the environment in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on environmental justice and the political ecology of water and energy resources. He is the Project Lead for the (...)

Philippe Migaux is a Chef Police Superintendent at the French Embassy in Malaysia and is a well-known export on terrorism. His improvised paper explains the impossible relationship between terrorism and professional mafia gangs.
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Historien moderniste, il est chercheur au CNRS depuis 2008. Diplômé de l’université Paris IV Sorbonne, il a consacré sa thèse de doctorat à l’histoire de la royauté khmère au xviie siècle. Il a publié deux ouvrages sur l’histoire du Cambodge, l’un portant sur les institutions de la période moderne (La Royauté d’Oudong. Réforme des institutions et crise du pouvoir dans le royaume khmer du xviie siècle, Paris, Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne, 2009), l’autre retraçant l’expérience ethnographique d’un (...)