Team
Scientific director
Laurence Deschamps-Laporte (PhD Oxford) is professor of political sciences at the University of Montreal. Expert in Canadian foreign policy and diplomacy, her main research agenda is set in feminism in international relations, Middle-East politics and islamist movements. She completed a PhD at Oxford University thanks to a Rhodes scholarship. Before joining UdeM and CÉRIUM, Laurence Deschamps-Laporte was an advisor, then chief of staff to three Canadian foreign ministers. As a consultant at McKinsey & Company, she carried out public policy mandates in several countries in Africa and the Middle East.
Contact Laurence Deschamps-Laporte by email
3744 Jean-Brillant street, Local 592-10
Academic director
Kathryn Furlong is a full professor in the Department of Geography at the Université de Montréal and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Water and Urbanization (2011-2021). She holds a PhD in Human Geography (UCB). Her research focuses on the social and environmental consequences of political-economic restructuring for water management and governance, particularly in the context of municipal governance. Her research thus brings together the disciplines of economic and urban geography and political ecology while examining numerous issues related to governance, political-economic restructuring, municipal service delivery, socio-technical networks, consumption and the links between practice and ethics. Her research has been supported by SSHRC, FQRSC, Infrastructure Canada and the Canadian Water Network.
Coordination
Clara Bort
Coordinator
Clara Bort is the coordinator of CERIUM. With a master's degree in political science from UdeM, she specialized in comparative politics, post-Soviet studies and theories of nationalism. Her directed work, supervised by Magdalena Dembinska and entitled Building a nation in the context of memory conflict: The case of the Riga Occupations Museum, received the Brigitte Schroeder prize for best directed work from the political science department of the UdeM of 2021. Before joining CÉRIUM, Clara worked in the Admission and Recruitment Department of UdeM, on the recruitment activities side, and was also responsible for communications for the Réseau québécois d'études post-soviétiques.
Contact Clara by email
3744 Jean-Brillant street, Local 592-8
Communications and partnerships
Sabrina Myre
Senior communications and partnerships advisor
Journalist and former correspondent in Jerusalem, Sabrina Myre has produced numerous reports throughout her career to allow Canadians to better understand the world around them, in Quebec and internationally. Her common thread? Human rights, particularly those of women, in conflict zones. She is the winner of a prestigious award in 2023 from the Canadian Association of Journalists for her reports on the nightmare of Canadian children detained in Syria, broadcast on Radio-Canada. She is a graduate of McGill University and holds a master's degree from Sciences Po Paris.
Contact Sabrina by email
3744 Jean-Brillant street, local 592-14
Finances
Aicha Tahri
Financial management agent
As a graduate of the INSEEC Paris business school in Corporate Finance in 2010, Aicha Tahri has 11 years of banking experience in financial analysis and portfolio management of Corporate customer accounts at Société Générale. She joined the CÉRIUM team in September 2022.
Contact Aicha by email
3744 Jean-Brillant street, Local 592-12
Fanny Reyns
Administration technician
Holder of a master's degree in cultural management from the University of Brussels, Fanny Reyns had the opportunity to enrich her professional career in Belgium, Italy, Vancouver and most recently at the Center for Dramatic Authors in Montreal. Fanny is delighted to now put her administrative and accounting skills at the service of CÉRIUM.
Contact Fanny by email
3744 Jean-Brillant street, Local 592-13
Research team
Africa
Nicolas Klingelschmitt
Researcher on Africa
Nicolas Klingelschmitt is a PhD candidate and lecturer in the political science department at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), and holds a master's degree in international relations & international program management from the University of Lyon 3 (France). His thesis, supported by the Quebec Research Fund in Society and Culture, focuses on the functioning of the African peace and security architecture, in particular the relations between the African Union, the Regional Economic Communities and external partners in the framework of conflict prevention and management. He is a researcher and coordinator at the FrancoPaix Center of the Raoul Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies and co-host of the podcast “Au FrancParler”. Nicolas is also a guest researcher at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) and a member of the Interuniversity Group for Studies and Research on African Societies (GIERSA). Before starting his thesis, he worked for three years at the Africa World Institute, for which he carried out studies on interreligious dialogue and migratory dynamics in West Africa. He was also an author for Les Clés du Middle-Orient.
Europe
Emmanuelle Rousseau
Researcher on Europe
Emmanuelle Rousseau is a PhD student at the Université de Montréal. She is interested in international organizations and the post-Soviet space. Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Frédéric Mérand, focuses on the protest practices of permanent representations at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Her research is based in the sociology of international relations and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. Emmanuelle holds a Master’s degree in governance of international relations (Sciences po Toulouse), a Bachelor’s degree in Russian language and civilization (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) and a Bachelor’s degree in law (Université d’Angers). She speaks French, English and Russian.
Middle-East
Alexis Montambault-Trudelle
Researcher on the Middle East
Alexis Montambault-Trudelle holds a PhD in politics and international relations from the University of Edinburgh. Alexis' research focuses on the political economy of Gulf, particularly in the areas of sovereign wealth funds, authoritarian resilience, and state-society relations. He is also interested in issues related to international relations in the Middle East and how resource-rich countries are adapting to the energy transition.
Asia and Indo-pacific
Alexandra Parada
Coordinator of the Chaire d'études asiatiques et indo-pacifiques du CÉRIUM
Alexandra Parada's doctoral research addresses discrimination in the context of artificial intelligence. She participates in various research projects focusing on the practical and theoretical impacts of technologies on rights and justice. More generally, she is interested in the question of human rights and global issues linked to North-South dynamics. She is also involved in several rights defense organizations. She graduated from the University of Montreal (master's degree in international studies, 2017) and from the University of Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (bachelor's degree in law and bachelor's degree in philosophy, 2013).
Contact Alexandra by email
3744 Jean-Brillant street, local 592-11