Françoise Nicolas is Senior Research Fellow and Director of Center for Asian Studies, IFRI. She also teaches at Sciences Po Paris (Europe-Asia programme, Le Havre campus) and Sciences Po Lyon and is a consultant to the Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD (DAF) focusing on Southeast Asian non-member countries. She was an Assistant Professor in International Economics at the University of Paris-Est (Marne-la-Vallée), and taught at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, as well as at the HEC School of Management. Professor Nicolas holds a Ph.D. in international economics and a MA in political science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland).