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Before joining Boston University’s doctoral program in political science, I spent two years working at the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS), a Paris-based think tank. While living in Paris, I engaged in various projects on migration policy and sport diplomacy, and I contributed to the media coverage of sports and politics. I describe some of these activities below.

[Project] Towards a European Union Sport Diplomacy (TES-D) – Erasmus+ Project (2021-2023)

I participated in the grant proposal writing of the TES-D project as a research assistant at IRIS, and I stayed on as research associate to work on the project once we received funding from the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. In collaboration with scholars and practioners from universities and organizations in Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Romania and Denmark, the project aimed at (1) documenting existing national sport diplomacies of EU countries and (2) developing an EU-level policy for sport diplomacy building on existing national expertise.

You can learn more about TES-D here.

[Policy Report] Securitisation and Third-Sector Organizations: A Comparative Study of France and Greece – 89 Initiative

89 Initiative was a pan-European think-do tank founded in 2015 at the London School of Economics. As a research officer at 89 Initiative, I participated in the data collection and drafting of a policy report about the securitization of migration in the context of the “2015 migration crisis” in Europe. As part of this qualitative cross-country project, I conducted 14 semi-structured interviews with representatives from non-governmental organizations in Paris.

You can read the full report here.

[Article] À fleurets mouchetés : l’opposition sino-états-unienne au prisme des diplomaties sportives – Revue Internationale et Stratégique (2020)

[With Buttoned Foils: The US–China Rivalry through the Lens of Sports Diplomacy]

This article was published by the Revue Internationale Stratégique, the journal edited by IRIS. With my co-author Carole Gomez, we examine the diplomatic relations between China and the United States through the prism of sports.

You can read the full article here.

Audition par la Commission des Affaires Étrangères sur la Géopolitique du Sport à l’Assemblée Nationale

[Hearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly on the Geopolitics of Sport]

As a result of my work in sports and politics, I was auditioned by the Foreign Affairs Committee on the Geopolitics of Sport at the French National Assembly in 2023.

You can read the full report here.

Excerpts from media engagement