Holds a Ph.D. in political science (2000) from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP). He joined the CERI in 2001. Co-director the CERI working papers series Questions de recherche/Research in question, he is a member of the editorial board of Critique internationale, Cultures et conflits and International Political Sociology.
His doctoral thesis concerned the economic fight against criminality in Soviet Russia from 1965 till 1995. He leads at present researches on the international mobilizations against the criminal threats and on the transformations of the penal policy in Russia. Its works join the transverse project "historic Trajectories of the State ".
In 2006, he received the bronze medal of the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). He is member of the section 40 of the CNRS since 2008 and scientific secretary of this section since 2010.
He speaks English and Russian.
Teaching
- SciencesPo
Collège universitaire: Political Changes in Russia (24h in English), Sociology of Criminal Entreprises (12h with Jean-Louis Briquet)
Master PSIA: Power and political change in Russia (24h)
- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS): “Political sociology of contemporary Russia”, since 2006, with Myriam Désert, 24h.
Research interests
- Global mobilization in relation to trans-national crime: the fight against organized crime, money laundering and corruption
- Transformation in Russian penal policy: judicial reform, policy activity and the enforcement of judicial decisions
- The professionalization of anti-money laundering activities in France