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My research focuses on the political economy of real estate, particularly in North-East Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, China). I have explored the relationships between land/real estate cycles, government policies and the socio-material forms of the built environment (including funeral artefacts) in several urban regions. My recent research addresses the financialisation of real estate and land value capture mechanisms applied to railway infrastructure. I am also Lead PI of the French-Singaporean SPACE project which analyses the risk factors and sociospatial patterns of infectious diseases (dengue and COVID 19) in Singapore’s urban environment. This project is co-led by Shirley Ho at NTU and funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation under the Create Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise.

2005 Habilitation to supervise research, college 24 (Urban Geography), University Lyon 2.

1993 PhD in Urban Sciences, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

1986 Master in Physical Geography (hydrology/climatology), University Paris IV-Sorbonne.

1984 Bachelor in Physical Geography, University Strasbourg.

1982 Bachelor in History, University Strasbourg.

1992 Bachelor in Japanese language and civilization, Institut National des Langues Orientales, Paris.

2012 National certificate HSK level 4 in Mandarin Chinese (intermediate). Current level close to HSK 5 (advanced).

Current position Permanent research director at CNRS (equivalent professor), affiliated with the Geographie-Cités research unit. From November 2022 to September 2024: affiliated with CNRS@CREATE in Singapore

2011-2012 Assigned by CNRS to the Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) in Hong Kong, visiting scholar at the Department of Real Estate and Construction of Hong Kong University.

2010-2011 Assigned by CNRS at the Institute for Research in Contemporary Japan, Tokyo. Visiting scholar at Tokyo University.

2006-2010 Director of the CNRS North Asia regional office (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan), based in Tokyo.

2002-2006 CNRS researcher at the Institute for East Asian Studies, ENS, university Lyon 2

2000-2002 Detached at the French ministry of Foreign affairs, affiliated with the Institute for Research in Contemporary Japan, Tokyo. Visiting scholar at Waseda University

1999-2000 12 months stay in Kyoto with a scholarship from the Europe Canon Foundation. Visiting scholar at Department of Economy, university of Kyoto

1993-1999 CNRS researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Studies, university Toulouse 2

1986-1990 Marketing consultant in the Housing for Sale Department, Federation of Social Housing Companies (UNFO-HLM), Paris. Consulting on housing markets and financial/commercial feasibility of housing development projects allover France)

Project management as Lead PI

2022-2025 – Project Lead of the  French-Singaporean SPACE project  “Shaping Public Adaptive Capacity For Environmental Infectious Diseases”. This project is part of the  INTRA-CREATE call “Science of Sustainable Cities”. Funded by the  National Research Agency in Singapore and co-led by Shirley Ho from NTU, SPACE is managed by the international CNRS subsidiary CNRS@CREATE.

2015-2018: Project Lead of the European MEDIUM project.Entitled “New pathways for sustainable urban development in China’s medium-sized cities“, this project was funded by the European Commission and involved the following partners: Sun Yat Sen university, Hangzhou Normal University, Datong university, Science Po Aix, Lausanne university, university Ca’ Foscari Venezia.

2013-2016 : Project Lead of the ANR FINURBASIE project, « Expansion of market finance and urban production in Asia, China and India compared», in partnership with LATTS.

2006-2010: Project Lead of the ANR FunerAsie project, “The Growth of the Funeral Industry in North-East Asia: Economic, Spatial and Religious Challenges”. This project involved a team of Japanese-speaking French and Korean scholars, as well as Chinese-and Korean-speaking Japanese scholars. 

Lead Pi of French teams or work packages

2019-2023: Lead PI of the French team of the Sino-European “Financing Clean Air ” project. WP3  “Alternative land value capture mechanisms to support air quality enhancing sustainable transport”. Project led by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with the universities of Paris Effeil, Tongji university, Xian Jiaotong university, Radbud university (ANR funding for France).

2015-2018: Lead PI of the WP5 of the  Odessa project, “Optimizing care Delivery modelS to Support Ageing-in-place: towards autonomy, affordability and financial sustainability”  under Euro-China UPC program. This project was led by the university Sheffield and involved partnerships with university Dauphine and university Tsinghua (ANR funding ).

2011: Lead PI of the Japan team of the project “The challenges of urban growth and decline for regional planning, perspectives from Japan and Canada” founded by the French Agency for Regional Planning (now CGET).

2010-2011: Lead PI of the French team of the France-Taiwan bilateral project “Globalization and Urban Dynamics in Asia: Taiwanese and French Perspectives”, jointly founded by CNRS and NSC. Webpage

Co-investigator in research projects

2019-2023: Co-investigator of the ANR project Vino Rosa project  “The Cities of the new Silk Road in South-East Asia”, lead by Adèle Esposito.

Articles in peer-review journals (since 2000)

ESPOSITO ANDUJAR A..,  FAUVEAUD G. GIBERT-FLUTRE M.,AVELINE-DUBACH N., LIY Y., HENRIOT K., MOSER S. (2023), How does the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ change urbanisation patterns in Southeast Asia? Asia Pacific Viewpoint, DOI:  10.1111/apv.12391. Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N. 2022, Financializing nursing homes? The uneven development of Health care REITs in France, the United Kingdom and Japan, Environment and Planning A. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X211072865. Online access

WANG P, AVELINE-DUBACH N, 2021, Les métropoles chinoises face à la pénurie d’aides-soignantes dans les maisons de retraite. Les cas comparés de Hangzhou et Zhengzhou [Chinese metropolises face shortage of caregivers in nursing homes. The comparative cases of Hangzhou and Zhengzhou], Gérontologie et Société, 43, 165, 227-244. DOI : 10.3917/gs1.165.0227 Online access

LEGOIX R, CASANOVA EINAUD L, BONNEVAL L, LE CORRE T, BENITEZ-GAMBIRAZIO E. BOULAY G, KUTZ W. AVELINE N, MIGOZZI J, YSEBAERT R, 2020, Housing (In)equity and the Spatial Dynamics of Homeownership in France: A Research Agenda, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12460  Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N, 2020, The Financialization of Rental Housing in Tokyo. Land Use Policy, DOI:  10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104463. Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N, BLANDEAU G, 2019, The Political Economy of Transit Value Capture: The Changing Business Model of the MTRC in Hong Kong, Urban Studies, 56 (16), 3415-343. DOI: 10.1177/0042098018821519. Online access

N’DIAYE O, AVELINE-DUBACH N, LEGOIX R; 2018, The adoption of smart grid technology by Japanese developers: A real
estate perspective on the smart city. L’Espace géographique, 47, 4,  289-304. DOI : 10.3917/eg.474.0289. Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N, 2017, La centralité du foncier dans le régime d’accumulation du capital en Chine [The centrality of land in the regime of capital accumulation in China], Revue de la Régulation, 21, 25 p. DOI : 10.4000/regulation.12262. Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N, 2016, Embedment of ‘Liquid’ Capital into the Built Environment: The Case of REIT Investment in Hong Kong, Issues & Studies, Vol. 52, n° 4, 32 p. DOI: 10. 1142/S1013251116400014. Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N, 2016, Land and Real Estate in Northeast Asia, New Approaches in an Era of Financialization, Issues & Studies, Vol. 52, n° 4, 11 p. DOI: 10.1142/S101325111602001.  Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N, 2013, Finance Capital Launches an Assault on Real Estate, China Perspectives, 2, 29-39. DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.6157. Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N, 2009, Etat de la recherche sur les marchés immobiliers : pour une prise en compte de l’approche sociologique [State of research on real estate markets: for a consideration of the sociological approach], Nichifutsu shakaigaku nenpo, 18,55-65.

AVELINE N, 2003, L’expérience particulière du Japon en matière de renouvellement urbain [Japan’s particular experience in urban renewal], Droit et Ville, Presses de l’université de Toulouse, 55, 59-69. Online access

AVELINE N, 2001, フランスにおける現状と課題, Furansu ni okeru tochimondai no genjô to kadai [Contemporary land issues in France] Review of Comparative Law, Waseda University Press, 67, 131-145. Online access

AVELINE N, 2000, Marchés fonciers et immobiliers à Beyrouth [Land and real estate markets in Beirut], Cahiers du Cermoc, Special issue, 2000, document n°6, 35 p. Online access

AVELINE N, 2000, Effects of Economic Globalization on Spatial Structure and Property Markets in the Paris Region, Comprehensive Urban Studies, Tokyo Metropolitan University Press, 62, 243-256.  Online access

Books

AVELINE-DUBACH, 2008, Immobilier, l’Asie, la bulle et la mondialisation, cnrseditions, Paris, 307 p.

AVELINE N, 2004, Géographie du Japon, Belin, coll. Mémentos, 186 p. Online access

AVELINE N, 2003, La ville et le rail au Japon, l’expansion des groupes ferroviaires privés à Tokyo et Osaka, cnrseditions, 238 p. Online access

AVELINE N, 1995, La bulle foncière au Japon, ADEF, Paris, 242 p. Online access

AVELINE N, RENARD V, 1990,  Politiques Foncières Comparées : Pays Bas, ADEF, Paris, 62 p.

Edited volumes

AVELINE-DUBACH N (ed), 2023, Globalization and dynamics of urban production. Encyclopedy of Sciences, ISTE/John Wiley & Sons, London. Access

AVELINE-DUBACH N (ed), 2018, Pathways of sustainable development across China — the cases of Hangzhou,  Datong and Zhuhai. E-book, Venise, Imago editor, 148 p. Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N (ed), 2015, Vieillissement et déprise urbaine au Japon, les nouveaux défis de l’aménagement, Paris, La Documentation Française, collection GCET, 106 p.

AVELINE-DUBACH N,  JOU S.C,  HSIAO H.H. (eds), 2014,  Globalization and new intra-urban dynamics in Asian cities, Presses de l’Université Nationale de Taiwan, Taipei, 459 p.

AVELINE-DUBACH (ed), 2012, Invisible Population – The Place of the Dead in East Asian Megacities, Lexington books, 223 p. Publié en français en 2013 sous le titre La place des morts dans les mégalopoles d’Asie orientale, Indes Savantes, 237 p.

AVELINE N, LI H-L (eds), 2004, Property Markets and Land Policies in Northeast Asia The Case of Five Cities : Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei and Hong Kong, Hongkong-Tokyo, Maison Franco-Japonaise / Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, 308 p. Online access

Book chapters (since 2007)

CREVOISIER, O. and AVELINE-DUBACH N.  (2023) « Towards the financialization of urbanity », in N. AVELINE-DUBACH N (ed), 2023, Globalization and dynamics of urban production. Encyclopedy of Sciences, ISTE/John Wiley & Sons, London, Hoboken, 215-242.

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2023), « Land Value Capture and Its Large-Scale Application in Northeast Asia», in AVELINE-DUBACH N (ed), 2023, Globalization and dynamics of urban production. Encyclopedy of Sciences, ISTE/John Wiley & Sons, London, Hoboken, 127-154.

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2023), « Introduction : the accumulation of capital in the urban fabric », in AVELINE-DUBACH N (ed), 2023, Globalization and dynamics of urban production. Encyclopedy of Sciences, ISTE/John Wiley & Sons, London, Hoboken.

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2023), « Théorie de la Régulation et géographie : quels apports réciproques ? », in R. BOYER, J-P. CHANTEAU, A. LABROUSSE et T. LAMARCHE, La Théorie de la Régulation, un nouvel état des savoirs, Dunod, 250-256

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2022), “Recontextualiser la question foncière dans un monde postindustriel”, in  Taoufik SOUAMI,  Marie LLORENTE, Martine DRODZ, (dir.), Financement de l’aménagement urbain, acteurs, innovation, Editions du Moniteur, 139-146, 2022, ISBN 978-2-281-13542-8.

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2020),  “The Financialization of Real Estate in Megacities and its Variegated Trajectories in East Asia”, In A. SORENSEN and D. LABBE (dir.), Handbook of Megacities and Megacity Regions, Edward Elgar, 394-409, ISBN: 978 1 78897 269 7. Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2020), “China’s Housing Booms: A Challenge to Bubble Theory”, in D. PUMAIN (dir.), Theories and Models of Urbanization, Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham, 183-208. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-36656-8_11  Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N. LE CORRE T, DENIS E, NAPOLEONE C (2020), “Les futurs du foncier : modes d’accumulation du capital, droit de propriété et production de la ville”. In F. ADISSON, S. BARLES, N. BLANC, O. COUTARD, L. FROUILIOU, F. RASSAT (dir.), Pour la Recherche Urbaine, Paris : cnrseditions, p. 313-336. Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N (2015), “Stratégies des groupes ferroviaires privés face au déclin urbain dans les agglomérations de Tokyo et Osaka”, in N. AVELINE-DUBACH (dir.), Vieillissement et déprise urbaine au Japon, les nouveaux défis de l’aménagement, La Documentation Française, collection CGET, Paris, 87-102.

AVELINE-DUBACH N (2015), “Vieillissement sous contrainte topographique dans le secteur des pentes de Nagasaki”, in N. AVELINE-DUBACH (dir.), Vieillissement et déprise urbaine au Japon, les nouveaux défis de l’aménagement, La Documentation Française, collection CGET, Paris, 53-62.

AVELINE-DUBACH N (2014), « New patterns of property investment in ‘post-bubble’ Tokyo : the shift from land to real estate as a financial asset », in N. AVELINE-DUBACH, S.C. JOU, and H.H. HSIAO (dir.,) Globalization and new intra-urban dynamics in Asian cities, National Taiwan University Press, Taipei, p.265-294. Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2014) ” Understanding globalization in urban Asia —moving from single to plural dimensions and scales”, in N. AVELINE-DUBACH, S.C. JOU, and H.H. HSIAO (dir.,) Globalization and new intra-urban dynamics in Asian cities, National Taiwan University Press, Taipei, p. 27-61.

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2013), “Au prisme de la ville ‘privée’, retour sur les trajectoires urbaines de Tokyo et Hong Kong” in C. LEFEVRE, N. ROSEAU et T. VITALE (dir.) Gouverner la métropole, Editions de l’œil d’Or, Paris, 215-232.

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2012), “Comparative perspectives of the funeral issues accross Northeast Asia”, in N. AVELINE-DUBACH (dir.), The Invisible Population — The Place of the Dead in East Asian Megacities, Lexington books, 206-219.

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2012), “The revival of the Funeral Industry in Shanghai: a Model for China”, in N. AVELINE-DUBACH (dir.), The Invisible Population — The Place of the Dead in East Asian Megacities, Lexington books, 74-97.  Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2012), “Creative destruction: the Shattering of the Family Grave System in Japan”, in N. AVELINE-DUBACH (dir.), The Invisible Population — The Place of the Dead in East Asian Megacities, Lexington books, 1-28.  Online access

AVELINE-DUBACH N. (2010), “The Role of Industrial Estates in Thailand’s Industrialization, New Challenges for the Future”, in P. INATARAKUMNERD, Y. LECLER (dir.), Sustainability of Thailand’s Competitiveness: the Policy Challenges, Singapour, ISEAS, 174-208. Online access

AVELINE N. (2007), « Urbanisme et civilisation urbaine », in J.-M. BOUISSOU (dir.), Le Japon Contemporain , Fayard, 317-338  Online access

Translations (from Japanese to French)

MIYAO T, 1996, « Controverses autour des politiques foncières et des valeurs immobilières », in La Recherche sur la ville au Japon, actes des journées franco-japonaises du PIR-Villes, CNRS éditions, Paris, p.107-115.

TAKANO T, 1996, « Ville et santé publique », in La Recherche sur la ville au Japon, actes des journées franco-japonaises du PIR-Villes, CNRS éditions, Paris, p.75-84.

OBASE R, 1996, « Boom immobilier, réglementation foncière et transformation des quartiers », in La Recherche sur la ville au Japon, actes des journées franco-japonaises du PIR-Villes, CNRS éditions, Paris, p. 139-159.

ISHIDA Y., 1999, « Hausse des coefficients d’occupation des sols et environnement urbain », in Natacha Aveline (dir.), « Regards croisés sur les formes de la ville japonaise » (dossier thématique), in Daruma n°3, Picquier, Arles, p. 101-133.

HAGIHARA K., 1998, « Les relations entre l’Etat et les collectivités locales », in Natacha Aveline (dir.), « Regards croisés sur les formes de la ville japonaise » (dossier thématique), in Daruma n°3, Picquier, Arles, p.83-99.

SATO Y., 2012, « La problématique du vieillissement dans la ville nouvelle de Senboku », in Natacha Aveline-Dubach (2012), Les défis aménagistes face au vieillissement au Japon, rapport pour la DATAR, p.69-84.

TAKAMURA T, 2013, « Les espaces funéraires à Séoul, une histoire marquée par l’expérience coloniale, in N. Aveline-Dubach (dir.), La place des morts dans les mégalopoles d’Asie orientale, Editions des Indes Savantes, Paris, p. 177-201.

YAHAGI H, 2015,  « Freiner le déclin agricole et l’exode rural dans la préfecture d’Akita », in N. Aveline-Dubach (dir.), Vieillissement et déprise urbaine au Japon, les nouveaux défis de l’aménagement, La Documentation Française, collection CGET, Paris, p. 23-33.

Videos

AVELINE-DUBACH N, AVRIST, IMAGO, 2019, L’innovation en Chine, décryptage des enjeux urbains, socio-économiques et technologiques [Innovation in China, urban, socioeconomic and technologic issues],  MEDIUM conference June 2018. Accès en ligne .

AVELINE N, JIMENEZ J, 2000, Mourir à Tôkyô,  film documentaire de 52 minutes en Betacam produit le Centre Multimedia de l’université Toulouse 2. Accès en ligne.

01-04/2022: invited professor at University of Montreal , as part of the Japanese studies curriculum, Montreal. Undergraduate level. Teaching on “The urban question in Japan from historical and contemporary perspectives” (winter semester)

2015-2021: Course on Real estate economics and housing at the Master “Cycle d’urbanisme”, Institute of Political Studies, Paris.

2019-2021: Lecture on Land Policies at the Master of Urbanism of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

2010-2016: Lecture on the governance of Northeast Asian cities in the Master “Governing the Large Metropolis”, Institute of Political Studies, Paris.

2010-2011: Lecture on urban dynamics in Asian cities, Keio University, Tokyo. Undergraduate level.

2002-2006: Lecture on Asian economy and geography at the Master “Asian businesses”, Institute of Political Studies, Lyon.

2004-2006: Lecture on the theory of land economics in the Master’s degree “Métiers de la ville”, Lebanese University, Beirut .

2003-2004: Lecture in land economics theory in the DESS of urban planning at Alba University, Beirut.

1995-2000: Lecture in the Master “Aménagement du territoire option habitat”, University Toulouse le Mirail.

1994-1998:  Translation of Japanese economic texts into French, DESS “LEA option japonais” , University of Toulouse le Mirail.

1992-1993: Geography course, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

I have given 173 talks in seminars and conferences, including 101 abroad, and 40 as invited or keynote speaker. I have also (co)organized more than 40 scientific events.

Major presentations in the past 5 years

08/12/2023 “Fractured Residential Landscapes of Biosecurity -Dengue Prevention in Singapore from an Urban Political Ecology Perspective”, international workshop of the SPACE project “Preventing and controllinginfectious diseases in the built environment of city regions: France-Singapore cross-views”, Centre Panthéon, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne.

03/10/2021 « Les villes métropolitaines à l’heure des villes mondiales », invited panelist, round table organized by the International Festival of Geography, Saint Dié-les-Vosges, France.

06/08/2019. “The financialisation of real estate in East Asian cities, Contrasting patterns across Japan, Hong Kong and Mainland China”, invited as keynote speaker, workshop of  the Urban Commission of the International Geographic Union, Luxembourg.

17/11/2018. “The residential vacancy in Japan and China” invited as keynote speaker , University Dokkyo, conference « Legal issues facing Japan on vacant housing and abandoned land in an ageing and depopulating society, Chiba, Japan.

18/05/2018 “The centrality of land in economic growth and urban development— China and Japan compared”, invited speaker at Beijing University, The Lincoln Land Institute, Beijing.

02/05/2018, “The securitization of housing in Tokyo, REITs residential markets”, invited speaker at the workshop of University College London, Bartlett School of Geography and Planning (London) .

17/04/2018: “The changing model of transit value capture under urban shrinkage in Japan”,  invited speaker at University Sun Yat Sen, School of Geography and Planning (Guangzhou)

13/11/2017, invited speaker, «Value extraction by financial investor and deterioration of seniors’s living conditions—the securitization of welfare facilities in Hong Kong’s public housing estates»,conference on  “Shared perspectives upon emergent forms of urban densification in Asia: issues of access to resources”. Hanoi Architectural University, Vietnam.

14/09/2017, « How to deal with land value inflation ? Comparing public policies in Europe and East Asia ?», workshop organized by the MEDIUM project, Datong, China.

08/08/2017 « Releasing the wealth locked in the homes to secure ageing-in- place, issues of spatial justice in the French viager system”, IGU Urban Geography Commission annual meeting “, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

17/06/2017 : “The challenges of the French reverse mortgage system (viager)”,  Conference on Urban China and the challenges of sustainability, MEDIUM project, University Sun Yat Sen, Guangzhou, China.

Major events organized in the past 5 years

12-15/09/2017: co-organization with Shanxi Datong University of a MEDIUM workshop in Datong (China) “Datong Scientific Seminar on Medium-sized Cities”.

13/05/2018: co-organization, with AVRIST, of an international conference on “Innovation in China: urban, socio-economic and technological issues” Hôtel de l’Industrie, Paris.

23/07-26/07/2021 : coordination of the workshop of the Urban Commission of the International Geographic Union in Paris (Université Paris Cité)

Editorial management

• Co-director of the journal Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography. Supervision of all abstracts in three languages (French, English and Chinese).
• In charge of the topic “Socio-economic geography of urban production” in the Encyclopedy of Sciences under publication by ISTE(French) and WILEY (English). The 4 edited volumes are part of the “Géography and Demography” domain managed by Denise Pumain . LInk to the encyclopedy

Paper reviews

• International journals: Urban Studies, Internatinonal Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Cities, Geoforum, Land Use Policy, Regional Studies, Mortality
• National journal: Cybergeo, Revue de la Régulation, Revue d’Economie Régionale et Urbaine, Flux, l’Espace Géographique, Ecogéo, China Perspectives, Ebisu

Evaluation of research projects

Evaluation of 12 FP7 and H2020 proposals (European Commission) , 5 ANR proposals and 2 proposals for the Swiss National Found.

Evaluation of CNRS research units for HCERES

USR 3337 CEMCA/IFEA (Mexico, June 2003 by skype) and Groupe de Recherche sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient (USR 3439) Lyon, January 2015.

Participation in PhD and HDR defense juries

16 juries, 6 as president, 8 as pre-rapporteur et 2 as examinator. This includes 4 juries abroad (Hong Kong University, University Lausanne, University College London.

2 HDR jurys, 1 as examinator and 1 as pre-rapporteur.

Participation in selection juries for (associate) professor positions

3 committees in section 24  (urban planning), university Toulouse 2, university Gustave Eiffel and University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

3 commitees in section 15  (Japanese language and civilization), university Toulouse 2 and University Paris.

Reports for committes : for associate professor position at University Lausanne; for professor position at Hong Kong university

2024 President of the HCERES evaluation commitee of the research unit ‘UAR Est Asia’ (includes two research centers: French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC,) Hong Kong, and the French Research Institute on Japan at the Maison Franco-japonaise, Tokyo).

2018-2024  Member of the Scientific Council of the CNRS Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities.

2022: Member of the scientific committee of the “City, Housing, Real Estate” chair at Sciences Po.

10/2021 President of the jury for Competitive examination of high-grade ingenior positions at CNRS, section in Social Sciences and Humanities

10/2020 Member of the jury for Competitive examination of high-grade ingenior positions at CNRS, section in Social Sciences and Humanities

2012-2016  Member of the CNRS National Committee (CoNRS) in two sections: Space and Society (39 section) and Research Management (CID 50).

2006-2010 Director of the CNRS regional office in North Asia,  based in Tokyo and representing CNRS in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

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