Jean-Christophe DIEPART is a scientific collaborator of the Rural Economy and Development Unit of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (University of Liège, Belgium). He has been based in Cambodia since 2002 where he conducts field research and is involved in development cooperation activities. His research focuses on agrarian dynamics and, in particular, on the transformation of family production systems, land issues and mobility. Since 2010, his work has focused on the place and role of the peasantry in (...)

urban planner, specialist in urban management, Lao PDR.
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Director of IRASEC from 2001 to 2004
Stéphane Dovert has spent eighteen years in Asia between research in the humanities and diplomacy. He founded the Institute for Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia in 1999. He was then in charge of French cooperation in Burma before being entrusted with the direction of the Pôle de l’Ecrit et des Industries culturelles at the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. Since September 2010, he has been Counsellor for Cooperation and Cultural (...)

Based in Thailand since 1989, Arnaud Dubus has been covering Thailand for Radio France Internationale, Libération, Le Temps and TV5 with a special interest in politics, military affairs, religion and culture. He has written several books on Southeast Asia, including “Armée du Peuple, armée du Roi. Les militaires indonésiens et thaïlandais face à la société” (IRASEC/L’Harmattan, 2002), in collaboration with Nicolas Revise. (...)

Lecturer at the University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail and researcher at the CNRS Southeast Asia Centre UMR 8170, LASEMA team, he is the author of several books on Southeast Asia, the Malay world and Indonesia. He has published four books on Timor with IRASEC : a geo-historical atlas, a study on Christianity in the two halves of the island, a history of cartography and travel to Timor, and a study on the future prospects of the country. (...)

Renaud Egreteau (born in 1978) has a degree in Political Science (Institute of Political Science of Bordeaux, 1999) and in Oriental Studies (INALCO, Hindi, 2002). After completing his M.Phil degree on India’s Burma Policy (DEA Analyse Comparative des Aires Politiques, Asie, Institute of Political Science of Paris, 2002), he started his PhD in Political Science (Asia) under the supervision of Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, CERI.
He received a two-year scholarship from the Centre de Sciences (...)

Member of the team of ANR FORSEA
Vanny El Rahman is a doctoral researcher in Asia-Pacific Regional Studies at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in International Relations. His research interests include migration studies, migrant labor unions, Taiwan’s migrant worker regime, as well as terrorism and radicalism. His current research focuses on Indonesian migrant care workers in Taiwan and migrant-led unions. In addition to his academic work, (...)

Resident Researcher from 2019 to 2023
Dr. Adèle ESPOSITO ANDUJAR was trained as an architect and urban planner. She is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated to the IRASEC from September 2019 to August 2020. Her research looks at three drivers that trigger the internationalization of secondary cities in Southeast Asia : namely, heritage programs ; development assistance ; and foreign investments. Dr. Esposito Andujar has published the book (...)

Winner of the IRASEC field grants 2019
PhD student in history, EHESS - Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE/UMR 8170).
Research topic : The Cardinal’s Social Program : The Indonesian Catholic Church, Islam and the Anti-communist Movement (1969 - 1981).
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Deputy director from 2022
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Gabriel FACAL is an anthropologist, currently deputy director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC, Bangkok), and associate researcher at the Southeast Asia Center (CASE, Paris). His work focuses on the emergence of agroecology in insular Southeast Asia. He draws on two case studies in Indonesia and comparative work in collaboration with research teams deployed in several countries in the region (Malaysia, (...)