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Christophe CarleChristophe Carle was Deputy Director and Director of Research of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva from 1996 to 2006, after having been a research fellow and senior fellow in charge of security studies at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales from 1987 to 1996. Christophe Carle has a Ph.D. and M.Phil. from Cambridge University and a B.A.(1st) from the University of Sussex...

He is a member of the IISS, of the editorial board of Contemporary Security Policy, was on the governing board of ISIS-Europe, and participated in the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmamant Matters from 1996 to 2006.

His current research covers security policy, arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament issues including nuclear weapons, outer space, missiles and missile defences, biological and chemical weapons, as well as conventional weapons and small arms.

Mathieu DuchâtelMathieu Duchâtel is a PhD candidate in political science at the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po, Paris) and a M.A student at the Graduate Institute for East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University, Taipei. He holds degrees from the French Institute for Oriental Languages, and Sciences Po Paris. His research is focused on politics in Taiwan, cross-strait relations, and the regional security implications of China’s rise...

Recent works in English: “Taiwan: The Security Policy of the Chen Government Since 2000”, China Perspectives, no 64, March-April 2006. “Direct Cross-Strait Transportation as the Missing Link Between Taiwan and Global Economic Networks?”, 3rd Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS), Paris, March 2006

Sophie Boisseau du RocherAfter having completed her Doctorate Thesis in december 1996 (Institute of Political Science, Paris) on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Sophie Boisseau du Rocher has been pursuing her research on regionalism in East Asia, international relations in East Asia and on political and strategic evolutions in Southeast Asia. She is Senior Researcher of …

… Asia Centre, Centre études Asie, and is regularly a consultant for the Minister of Defence and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. She is also a member of CSCAP Europe (Council on Security and Cooperation in Asia-Pacific), of ISEAS (Institute of Southeast Asia, Singapore) and IDSS (Institute of for Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore). She contributes to many reviews. 

Thibaud VoïtaFormerly a student at the National Institute for Oriental Languages (INALCO) in Chinese, Thibaud Voita graduated in 2003 from the Institut d'Etudes Politique de Paris (Sciences Po). He is currently undertaking a PhD in this same institution, under the supervision of Francois Godement. His thesis topic deals with the relationship and the involvement of the Chinese Government in local enterprises...

Since January 2004, Thibaud Voïta also contributes regularly to China Analysis / Les Nouvelles de Chine, as main specialist on Chinese economic questions first for the Institut Français des Relations Internationales and then for the Asia Centre since October 2005. He also worked as a consultant for the Asia Centre of HEC Business School on a report on the Chinese Financial System and helped prepare a colloquium on Chinese fragilities, the conclusions of which are to be published Q4 2006. Currently, Thibaud Voita is working at the Ministry of Economy and Finance's ADETEF on a report about the Chinese budgetary reform.
He is a specialist of the Chinese economy and prepares and analyzes article from the Chinese Financial and Economic Press for economic decision-makers. His ability to read Chinese fluently gives him access to Chinese language publications and articles on enterprise governance and the economy.

Pierre NoëlResearch Associate at the University of Cambridge (UK), based at the Judge Business School. He is part of the Electricity Policy Research Group (EPRG), an interdisciplinary group of energy and environmental policy experts from various departments of Cambridge University. At EPRG he works on the political economy of international energy security...

...Dr Noël’s research focuses on the political determinants of global oil and natural gas markets and industries. He has worked for almost 10 years on the interaction between foreign policies, energy markets and international security. He specialized in the United States’ international oil policy and now works also on Chinese energy security policies, the E.U. approach to international energy issues, and the geopolitics of natural gas markets.

 

From 2002-2006, P. Noël was a research fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) in Paris, where he was responsible for international energy studies. He also contributed the work of the French Center on the United States (CFE-IFRI). Prior to that, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics and Policy at the University of Grenoble. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Institute of Political Studies, university of Grenoble, and a MSc in Energy Economics and Policy from the same university.

 

Recent publications include: “The New Axis of Oil” (co-authored with Flynt Leverett), The National Interest, No. 84, Summer 2006; and “The New US Middle East Policy and Energy Security Challenges”, The International Journal, forthcoming.
Florence BiotFlorence Biot is currently Asia Centre – Centre études Asie General Secretariate where she also manages the CSCAP Europe Secretariat (the European committee, co-chaired by François Godement, of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific, a non-governmental process for dialogue on security issues in Asia Pacific). She has worked successively at the Research Institute for the Development (IRD, Paris), at the Chinese-French Antenna in Human and Social Sciences (R.P.C.,Beijing). She joined...
... Centre asie Ifri (French Institute of International Relations) as project coordinator at the beginning of 2004, and Asia Centre in 2005 when she also spent a semester at the Fondation pour l’innovation politique...
Mistress engineer in Sciences of information and communication (Lyon 1 University) and graduated of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO, Paris) where she holds a BA in Chinese, she was a Scholar of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the Chinese government from 2001 to 2003 and made a semiological analysis of the contemporary Chinese public communication.


She now and then participates in activities related to China’s media as publishing articles in China Analysis-Les nouvelles de Chine or conducting iconological projects.
François GodementFrançois Godement is president of Asia Centre, Centre études Asie. He is also professor at Sciences Po, Paris and the founder and former director of Centre asie ifri at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Paris (1985-2005). He helped found the European committee of CSCAP (Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific) which he chairs, and is a cofounder of CAEC (Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation). A consultant to the Policy planning staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he specializes in ... 
...East Asian international relations and strategy, regional integration and Chinese contemporary affairs. François Godement is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm (Paris), where he majored in history, and his publications include:
China on the Move : a Franco-American Analysis of Emerging Chinese Strategic policies and Their Consequences for Transatlantic Relations, avec David C.Gompert, Evan S.Medeiros et James C.Mulvenon, Rand National Defence Research Institute, 2005;
« North-east Asia : time to rethink ? », Disarmament Forum, 2, 2005, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, Geneva, Switzerland;
Asie 2005-2006 – Chine, Corée, du Sud, Inde, Japon, Sri Lanka, Thaïlande (sous la direction de Sophie Boisseau du Rocher et François Godement), Paris, La Documentation Française, 2005;
« Coming to the right terms with China’s rise », Internationale Politik, Berlin, DGAP, n° 12 – décembre 2005.
« Deux tigres peuvent-ils habiter la même montagne ? Une table-ronde sur les relations sino-japonaises », pp. 12-18, China Analysis – Nouvelles de Chine, n° 6-7, juillet-août 2006.
« Ce que la Chine chuchote à propos de la Corée du Nord », pp. 16-18, China Analysis – Nouvelles de Chine, n° 9, octobre 2006.
« Neither hegemon nor soft power: China’s rise at the gate of the West » pp. 51-70 in Facing China’s rise: guidelines for an EU strategy, Chaillot Paper n° 94, Institut d’Etudes de Sécurité, Paris, novembre 2006.
« La Corée du Nord, acteur rationnel en Asie du Nord-est » pp. 33-49 in Sophie Boisseau du Rocher et François Godement (sous la direction de), Asie 2006-2007 : entre attente et pragmatisme, Paris, La Documentation Française, 2006.
« La Chine, entre intégration et tentation néo-coloniale » in Etat du Monde 2008, Paris, Editions de la Découverte, 2007.
« The security role that Europe should be playing in conflict-prone Asia » in Europe’s World, Summer 2007, pp. 36-41.
« Energy security – different approaches » in Peter Ludlow,(ed.), The EU and China,  The European Strategy Foundation, Ponte de Lima, 2007, pp. 72-91;
« China’s energy policy: from self-sufficiency to energy sufficiency », International Spectator, N° 42-3, pp. 391-397.

Jean-Pierre CabestanJean-Pierre Cabestan is Professor and Head, Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also associate researcher at the Asia Centre, Paris. From 2003 to 2007 he was Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), attached to Institute of Comparative Law of the University of Paris 1. From 1998 to 2003, he was Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, CEFC) in Hong Kong and ...

...chief editor of Perspectives chinoises and China Perspectives. From 1994 to 1998, he was Director of the Taipei Office of the CEFC. In 1990-1991, he was Lecturer at the Politics Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies. His most recent publications include Le système politique de la Chine populaire (Paris, PUF, 1994); Taiwan-Chine populaire: l'impossible réunification (Paris, Ifri-Dunod, 1995); Le système politique de Taiwan (Paris, PUF, 1999); Chine-Taiwan: la guerre est-elle concevable? La sécurité extérieure de Taiwan face à la menace de la Chine populaire, Paris, Economica, 2003; (with Benoît Vermander) La Chine et ses frontières. La confrontation Chine-Taiwan, Paris, Presses des Sciences Po, 2005, translated and published in Chinese as a special issue of the journal Renlai (Taipei), January 2007. He has also published numerous articles and contributions in English on China's political system and reform, Chinese law, the relations across the Taiwan Strait and Taiwanese politics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Guibourg Delamotte

A French and Australian dual citizen, Guibourg Delamotte holds a PhD degree in Political studies (EHESS) for which she received the Shibusawa-Claudel award in 2008. She read Law at Paris II - Pantheon-Assas (Masters) and Oxford (M. Jur.) and graduated from the Political Institute of Paris (Sciences-po, Diploma/DEA). She learnt Japanese at school, later at Inalco (Masters), and during her stays in Japan...

 

She was an international student at the University of Tokyo (Lavoisier scholar from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, “Cultural studies” scholar from the Ministry for Education) in 2003-2004, and was invited to Japan by JAL Foundation in 2006.

 

A former junior researcher at Centre asie ifri, she now is a researcher at Asia Centre, working on Japan and strategic issues in Asia (her PhD was on Japan’s defense policy). She is also director of studies of the BA and Masters in International relations of Inalco.

 

The author of Japan Analysis, she co-edited Geopolitique de l’Asie, published in 2007 by Armand Colin-Sedes and Asia Centre. She has a number of articles (for instance in Ramses 2006 (Dunod, Ifri) and Asie 2006 (La documentation française, Asia Centre).

 

Michal MeidanMichal Meidan is a research associate at Asia Centre – Centre études Asie where she co-edits the electronic bulletin China Analysis – Les Nouvelles de Chine with François Godement and participates in the activities of the Energy and Security program. She also teaches at the East Asia Department at the Haifa University in Israel...
Expertise:
Her research is focused on China's energy security policy and it's implications for China's diplomacy; China's foreign and security policy as well as the PRC's oil diplomacy with the Middle East.

Degrees:
PhD student at the INALCO, Paris, she holds an MA in Political sciences and East Asian studies, she spent a semester at the Center for Energy Policy and Mineral Law Policy at the University of Dundee and a semester at Qinghua University in Beijing, PRC in collaboration with the Antenne expérimentale en sciences humaines et sociales

Published articles:
 « L’approvisionnement énergétique de la Chine : marchés et politiques », with Pierre Noël, Annuaire de l’Asie 2005, Paris : La Documentation Française, 2005
 « Sécurité énergétique en Chine et diplomatie pétrolière », Les Cahiers de Mars, no. 183, 1er trimestre 2005.
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