Research
Who really decides in energy governance, with what means, and how that asymmetry is legitimised.
My research object is the gap between formally attributed authority and the actual capacity to act in energy governance: who really decides, with what means, and how that asymmetry is legitimised. The thread runs from the metropolis to the international stage, from grid concessions to regional interconnections, and cuts across my academic articles, think tank notes and journalistic work.
Research areas
- Capacity asymmetry in energy governance: concessions, regulation, planning.
- Energy, territories and metropolises.
- Energy geopolitics: oil and OPEC+, LNG, chokepoints, semiconductors.
- Energy transitions in Southeast Asia; Taiwan and recognition.
- African power systems and regional integration (Central Africa).
- Decentralisation and energy justice.
Peer-reviewed publications
- "La fenêtre de rente : la sortie émirienne de l'OPEP+ comme aboutissement", La Revue de l'Énergie, no. 685 (2026/4), pp. 48-62. Read on Cairn →
- "Les transitions énergétiques en Asie du Sud-Est", chapter co-written with Gauthier Mouton, in L'Asie du Sud-Est 2027, IRASEC, ed. J. Jammes. Forthcoming.
- Several articles under review in French and international peer-reviewed journals.
Think tank notes and analysis
- Fondation Jean-Jaurès (associate fellow, Climate-Energy, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-Pacific observatories): "Intégrer l'électricité en Afrique centrale : la métropole comme arbitre absent", 11 June 2026; "Quand le principal parti d'opposition taïwanais bascule vers Pékin", 29 April 2026.
- Terra Nova (La Grande Conversation), Telos, Global Taiwan Institute (Washington D.C.), Taiwan Insight (University of Nottingham). See publications →
Lectures and series (selection)
Academic and institutional lectures
- 10th AIEE Energy Symposium, "Current and Future Challenges to Energy Security" (Italian Association of Energy Economists and University of Turin), Turin, 25–26 November 2026: accepted paper, "Political Grammars of Energy Security: France, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates". I compare France, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates to understand how governments and operators make an energy choice acceptable, where standard energy security indicators describe material risks. The symposium →
- 28th France–Taiwan Economic Cooperation Conference (MEDEF International, CIECA), Paris, 10 September 2026: "Energy security and geopolitics".
- Cameroon Institute of International Relations (IRIC, University of Yaoundé II), 29 July 2026: "The geopolitics of electricity in Central Africa: sovereignty, regulation and interconnections".
- Conference on Taiwan at the French National Assembly, November 2024.
- FNSER-Condorcet conferences (Blois, 2023 and 2024).
HEIP lecture series
Series of lectures on energy geopolitics at HEIP (Hautes Études Internationales et Politiques), alongside regular teaching. Regular interventions before students on current topics: energy crises, electrical sovereignty, transitions in Asia and Africa.
Université Ouverte de la Duchère
Monthly public lecture series I founded within the Lyon La Duchère football club, in partnership with Ciné Duchère. The concept: each month, a guest — academic, artist, intellectual — addresses residents of the working-class Duchère neighbourhood in Lyon, followed by a discussion and a film screening.
Inaugurated in November 2022 with mathematician Cédric Villani. Past guests include Catou Faust (EM Lyon Business School). The series combines academic rigour with grassroots engagement, as an exercise in democratising knowledge.
Other series
- Hybria energy lecture series (since 2022).
Fieldwork
- Central Africa (July 2026): power sector reform in a state of the region, institutional interviews (energy ministry, rural electrification agency, bilateral donor).
- Taiwan (2019, 2025): two missions at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; academic, diplomatic and industry interviews.
- Cambodia (2017-2022): energy policy and regional cooperation in Southeast Asia.
Affiliations and identifiers
- Associate fellow, Fondation Jean-Jaurès. Civil society member, CSR Platform (France Stratégie).
- ORCID 0009-0008-3178-1600 · Academia