Our Research Fellows
Ifri has a base of about thirty permanent in-house researcher fellows, in addition to associate researcher fellows and advisors who contribute to the work of the institute.
Dimitri MINIC
Research Fellow, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri
Laurence NARDON
Research Fellow, Head of the Americas Program, Ifri
Pierre NÉRON-BANCEL
Military fellow, Defense Research Unit of Security Studies Center, Ifri
Françoise NICOLAS
Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
Julien NOCETTI
Associate Fellow, Russia/Eurasia Center and Center for Geopolitics of Technology, Ifri
Jean-Christophe NOËL
Associate Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, Ifri
Luc PAGÈS
Advisor, Security Studies Center, Ifri
Céline PAJON
Research Fellow, Head of Japan and Indo-Pacific Research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
Benjamin PAJOT
Associate Research Fellow, Center for Geopolitics of Technology, Ifri
Mathieu PELLERIN
Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Ifri
Léo PÉRIA-PEIGNÉ
Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, Ifri
Cédric PHILIBERT
Associate Research Fellow, Energy and Climate Center, Ifri
Isabelle SAINT-MEZARD
Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
Sina SCHLIMMER
Research Fellow at Ifri's Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Head of the Governing the Urban Transition in Africa research program
Dorothée SCHMID
Head of the Turkey/Middle East Program, Ifri
John SEAMAN
Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
Hans STARK
Advisor, Study Committee on French-German Relations (Cerfa), Ifri
Jeanette SÜß
Research Fellow, Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa), Ifri
Élie TENENBAUM
Director of Ifri’s Security Studies Center
Kevin TU
Associate Research Fellow, Energy and Climate Center, Ifri
Mathilde VELLIET
Research Fellow, Center for Geopolitics of Technology, Ifri
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