Dr Laure Gillot-Assayag is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University Paris Office, and Assistant Professor at Waseda University.
Dr Laure Gillot-Assayag is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University Paris Office (UNU-Paris). She is currently an Assistant Professor at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) and an Associate Researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris, France). Her professional experience spans academia, international organisations, and public institutions. Her research focuses on the intersection of political science and public policy, with particular attention to how knowledge, institutions, and processes shape public decision-making.
She was previously a Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), a consultant on democratic education for UNESCO-IESALC, and an intern for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). She also served as a Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C., and held roles at the European Parliament and in the Council of Europe.
She is currently an expert for European research evaluation programmes and initiatives in global education. She regularly contributes to international conferences and policy dialogues as a speaker. Her academic work has received several distinctions, including the Paul Ricœur Excellence Prize.
She holds a PhD in Political Studies from EHESS and four master's degrees in transnational history, philosophy, and international and European human rights law, awarded by French universities and grandes écoles, including École normale supérieure (ENS Ulm), Sciences Po, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Nantes. She is fluent in Italian, English, and French and has an intermediate proficiency in Korean.