THE RISE OF ASIA 2026 SCIENTIFIC BOARD

 

SCIENTIFIC BOARD DUTY

The Scientific Board is the driving force of the conference. Its main role is to empower the conference with credibility and authority in front of scientific communities and the public. Scientific Board members are volunteers. They do not receive salary or any other form of remuneration for their work.

 

Their main duty is:

- to participate in the preparation of the conference (brainstorming, conception, strategic decisions...);

- to participate in the organisation of the event (planning, programming, selecting abstracts, chairing sessions...);

- to spread the conference information to her/his academic networks;

- to attend the conference if possible (as speaker, chair, co-chair, discussant, simple participant).

 

Nomenclature:

First and/or Second Name NAME, Nationality/Country of Residence (Academic Grade, Scientific Fields, Academic Function or other Occupation, Institution, City/Locality).

 

SCIENTIFIC BOARD COMPOSITION

(Brazil, China, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Uruguay, USA)

 

Andrés ARAUZ, Ecuador/USA (Doctor, Payment Systems, Finance, Knowledge Policy, Industrial Policy, Procurement, Geopolitics, Senior Research Fellow, CEPR, USA)

Annamaria ARTNER, Hungary (Doctor, Political Economy, Senior research fellow, Institute of World Economics, CERS, HUN-REN, Professor, Milton Friedman University, Budapest)

Beatriz BISSIO, Uruguay/Brazil (Doctor, History, Political Sciences, Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Athanase BOPDA, Cameroon/France (Doctor, Geography and History, African Studies, Professor, Université Le Havre Normandie)

Monica BRUCKMANN, Peru/Brazil (Doctor, Professor, Sociology and Political Sciences, Latin American Studies, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Marzia CASOLARI, Italy (Doctor, History, Professor, Asian Studies, University of Turin)

Gracjan CIMEK, Poland (Doctor, Political Science, International Relations, Professor, Polish Naval Academy, Poland)

Bruno DE CONTI, Brazil (Doctor, Economics, Associate Professor, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil)

Bruno DRWESKI, Poland/France (Doctor, History and Political Sciences, Central and Eastern European Studies, Professor, INALCO National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations, Paris, France)

Aicha EL ALAOUI, Morocco (Doctor, Political Economy, Expert, Professor, Faculty of Economics and Management, University Sultan My Slimane, Béni Mellal, President of Center's Dihia for Human Rights, Democracy and Development)

Rémy HERRERA, France (Doctor, Economics, Researcher, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Darwis KHUDORI, Indonesia/France (Doctor, Architecture, History, Emeritus Professor, Oriental/Asian Studies, GRIC Research Group on Identities and Cultures, Faculty of International Affairs, Université Le Havre Normandie, France)

Tsuyoshi KIDA, Japan (Doctor, Architecture and Linguistics, Professor, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of French, Dokyyo University, Tokyo)

Soyoung KIM, South Korea (Doctor, Cinema Studies, Professor, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea)

Dimitris KONSTANTAKOPOULOS, Greece (Diploma of Physics, D.E.A. on Information Processing, Journalist and Writer, Editor of Defend Democracy Press, member of the editorial board of Utopie Critique, Athens)

Dragana MITROVIC, Serbia (Doctor, Political Economy, Founder and Director of the Institute for Asian Studies, Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade)

Manoranjan MOHANTY, India (Doctor, Political Sciences, Chinese Studies, Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi)

Paolo MOTTA, Italy (Doctor, Architecture, Territorial Planning, Researcher, Member of EURISPES BRICS-LAB, Rome, Italy)

Noël Magloire NDOBA, Congo Brazzaville/France (Économiste, Président du Centre International Joseph Ki-Zerbo pour l'Afrique et sa Diaspora, Paris, France)

Fulufhelo NETSWERA, South Africa (Doctor, Professor, Management Sciences, Deputy Vice Chancellor – Research and Postgraduate Studies, University of Venda; Head, BRICS Research Institute, South Africa)

Ludmila OMMUNDSEN PESSOA, France & Brazil/France (Doctor, South African Studies, Professor, School of Literature, Languages and Social Sciences, University of Le Mans, France)

Seema Mehra PARIHAR, India (Doctor, Geography, Professor, Kirori Mal College, Delhi University)

Hélène RABAEY, France (Doctor, Spanish Studies, Associate Professor, GRIC, Director of Master's Degree in Exchanges with Latin America, Université Le Havre Normandie, France)

Magda REFAA, Egypt/France (Doctor, Philosophy, Researcher, University Paris 8)

Marco RICCERI, Italy (Doctor, Political Sciences, Professor, Secretary general of Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies EURISPES, Rome, Italy)

Qing SHI, China (Doctor, Law, Colonial Legal History, Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, Comparative Law, Postdoctoral Fellow, Peking University-Institute of Area Studies, China)

Diana Sfetlana STOICA, Romania/Hungary (Doctor, African Studies, Researcher, Department of Political Sciences, Associate Fellow Ubuntu Center for African Studies, West University of Timisoara)

Hugues TERTRAIS, France (Doctor, History, Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Asian History, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Rityusha TIWARY, India (Doctor, Political Sciences, Chinese Studies, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies New Delhi)

Baskara WARDAYA, Indonesia (Doctor, History, Researcher, PRAKSIS / Jesuit Center for Research and Advocacy, Jakarta)

F.J.S. (Frans) WIJSEN, the Netherlands/Indonesia (Doctor, Professor Emeritus, Department of Empirical Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Adjunct Professor, Graduate School, Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)