Dr. Antoine Bondaz is a Research Fellow and a Program Director at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), and an Associate Professor at Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on China and Koreas’ foreign and security policy, and strategic issues in East Asia. He advises senior government officials in France and Europe, and participates in numerous high-level track 1.5 dialogues with top Asian officials. He has testified before the French National Assembly and Senate, the European Parliament, the OECD, NATO and at the UN.

A former Special Adviser at the European Parliament (2017-2019), he was a Research Fellow at Asia Centre where he oversaw the China Observatory for the Ministry of armed forces, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and at Korea University. He participated in several governmental invitation programs for emerging leaders in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and in the United States.

He received a Ph.D. in political science at Sciences Po (summa cum laude) and was awarded several research prizes. A frequent commentator and op-ed contributor in French and international media, he has published 100+ articles and has presented his research 100+ times during invited talks