Doctor of Geography, a graduate of the National University of Singapore (NUS), she has carried out several field researches in Malaysia and Singapore, particularly on development corridors and urbanization. She has also carried out research missions in urban planning in the United Arab Emirates. Parallel to her research activities, she works as a market research consultant. (...)

Robert Farnan is lecturer in Social Science and Development at Chiang Mai University and received a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London in 2016. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Myanmar and Thailand. His ongoing research in International Political Sociology explores the intersection of conflict, security and development, with particular focus on environmental governance, resource extraction, and the politics of infrastructure and logistics in Southeast Asia. He recently (...)

Resident Researcher from 2011 to 2014
Nathalie Fau is a lecturer at the University of Paris 7 and a researcher at the SEDET laboratory (https://www.sedet.univ-paris-diderot.fr/ ) in the CNRS delegation. After having worked on Indonesia, and more particularly on the northern region of Sumatra within the framework of her thesis, she crossed the Strait of Malacca and focused her new research on Malaysia. All of her work focuses on two main research themes. The first, "New centralities in (...)

Director of IRASEC from 2004 to 2008
Researcher at the CNRS, is director of the Institute of Oriental Asia (IAO), Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Lyon. He is the director of the master’s degree in Contemporary East Asia at the IEP of Lyon. He was previously Director of IRASEC in Bangkok (2004-2008), Director General of the French Chamber of Commerce in Japan (1986-1992), resident at the Maison Franco-Japonaise in Tokyo (1983-1986), and taught at the Universities of (...)

geographer-urbanist, doctorate from the University of Paris l-Panthéon-Sorbonne, visiting professor at the University of Montreal (Canada), department of geography and faculty program in international studies.
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Amelia Fauzia is a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She is lecturer at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta. Her research focuses on religion, movements and social change, specifically looking at the relationship between state and civil society. Dr Fauzia received her PhD from the University of Melbourne (2009) where she analysed the state and Muslim civil society through the practice of Islamic (...)

Rui Graça Feijó (D. Phil Oxon 1984) is currently teaching at Universidade Aberta and also an Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, where he pursues his research interests in the construction of a democratic state in Timor Leste. He lived in Timor for an extended period (2004-2006). He was a teacher at UNTL in Díli, and later an UN sponsored Advisor to Presidency of the Timorese Republic. In 2007, he was a member of the CPLP team of electoral (...)

Andrée Feillard is a research fellow at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research). She studied the political history of Indonesian Islam and the Nahdlatul Ulama in particular, the largest Muslim organization. She then turned her attention to the emergence of radical Islamic movements and the recomposition of post-1998 Islam. The results of her research were the subject of a book entitled The End of Innocence ? Indonesian Islam and the Temptation of Radicalism (with Rémy (...)

David A. FEINGOLD is a research anthropologist and filmmaker. Trained in anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies at Dartmouth, Yale and Columbia, he has conducted extensive field research in Southeast Asia over four decades, particularly among the Akha and Shan people. He served as head of the HIV/AIDS and Trafficking Project at UNESCO, Bangkok, from 1997 to 2002. He is currently Director of the Ophidian Research Institute. His documentaries include the award-winning film, Trading Women. (...)

Vanda FELBAB-BROWN is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is an expert on illicit economies, organized crime, and international and internal conflicts and their management. She is the author of Afghan Aspirations, American Ambivalence : Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and Statebuilding and Shooting Up : Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs.
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