Éric Mottet is Senior Research Fellow and Head of Development at IRIS. He also co-directs the Indo-Pacific Geopolitical Observatory. His areas of expertise cover geopolitical and geo-economic issues in the Indo-Pacific, particularly in South-East and North-East Asia.

Éric Mottet is a professor at the Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines (FLSH) at the Université catholique de Lille (UCL), as well as director of the Emerging Worlds research chair and the ComMUnication, Société, Environnement (MUSE) research laboratory at UCL.He is also deputy director of the Conseil québécois d’études géopolitiques (CQEG, Université Laval, Canada), and a research associate at the Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine (IRASEC, Bangkok, Thailand), a research centre under the aegis of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

Éric Mottet was Professor of geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM, Canada) from 2009 to 2021, director of the Observatoire de l’Asie de l’Est (UQAM, Canada) from 2014 to 2021, as well as director of the Geopolitical Observatory of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in strategic and diplomatic studies (UQAM, Canada) from 2009 to 2013.

Author of numerous articles and books, he recently published and co-published “Repensé la multipolarité (Septentrion, 2013), “La Chine et le Monde. What new relations, what new paradigms?” (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2015), “Géopolitique des ressources minières en Asie du Sud-Est. Trajectoires plurielles et incertaines” (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2015), “Geopolitics of the South China Sea. Troubled Waters in Southeast Asia” (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2017), “Assessing Maritime Disputes in East Asia: Political and Legal Perspectives” (Routledge, 2017), “Globalization and Connectivity” (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2019), “The New Silk Roads. Geopolitics of a Major Chinese Project” (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2019), “Energy Transitions. Consensual Discourses, Conflicting Processes” (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2019), “Manuel de géopolitique. Enjeux de pouvoir sur des territoires” (Armand Colin, 2020), “L’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine” (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2020), “La puissance décomplexée de la Chine” (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2020), “Marges et frontières de la Chine” (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2020), and “La guerre par d’autres moyens: rivalités économiques et négociations commerciales au 21e siècle” (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2021).