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Fellowships and Research Grants

Research Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, funded by the Swedish Foundation  for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (January-April 2009)

Principal Investigator, Smith Richardson Foundation Project: “Coping with the Russo-Chinese Competition in Central Asia: Local Perspectives and Strategies” (January-December 2008)

Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. (October 2006-June 2007)

Research Fellow, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (July-September 2006)

Research Fellow, French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In Charge of the Research Program “Religion, Politics and Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Central Asia” (September 2002-August 2005)

Lavoisier Fellow, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Almaty, Kazakhstan (January-June 2002)

Visiting Fellow, French Institute of Anatolian Studies, Istanbul, Turkey (May-August 2001)

Doctoral Fellow, French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (September 1998-October 2000)

Doctoral Fellow, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia (January-March 1998)

M.A. Fellow, French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (June-July 1996, April 1997)

M.A. Fellow, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia (November 1996-March 1997)

Other Professional Positions

Member of the Editorial Board, Nationalities Papers (2007-), Central Eurasian Reader (2007-), Central Eurasian Studies Review (2005-), Cahiers d'Asie centrale, (2003-)

Referees on articles published in Cahiers du monde russe, Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, Nationalities Papers, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, Tiers-monde, Kennan Occasional Papers.

Education

Ph.D., National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO), 2002

M.A., Post-Soviet Studies, INALCO, 1997

B.A., Post-Soviet Studies, INALCO, 1994

Conferences Organizing and collective projects

Member of the “European Union-Central Asia Monitoring”, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS, Bruxelles) and Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE, Madrid) for 2008-2010.

International conference on “Central Asia/China: From Geopolitics To Partnership”, June 4-5, 2008, Almaty, Kazakhstan, organized by the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (Tashkent), the French Center for the Study of Contemporary China (Hong-Kong), the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (Almaty) and the Institute of Oriental Studies (Almaty). Proceedings published in Russian.

International conference on “Islam, Politics and Nationalism in the former USSR, Comparative Analysis of Russia and Central Asian Republics”, April 1-2, 2004, Kazan, Russia, organized by IFEAC and the Tatarstan Institute of Federalism. Proceedings published in French and in Russian.

Expertise

Working for French consulting firms and private research institutions since 2005, completing special papers and month political reports. Areas of Expertise: Political and social conditions in the five Central Asian republics, The situation of religion, Islam, Islamism, and religious minorities, Geopolitics and geo-strategy in Central Asia, International Relations, The rise of Chinese influence and mutual perceptions between China and Central Asia.

Languages

Fluent French, English, and Russian

Working knowledge in Chinese and German

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