FRANCOIS XAVIER BONNET

François-Xavier BONNET is a geographer, Research Associate at the Institute for Contemporary Southeast Asia (Irasec). As a UNESCO consultant, he has worked in Cambodia, among other places, on the production of geography textbooks. He lives in the Philippines and his research focuses on the geopolitics of the Philippines: Muslim terrorism and guerrilla warfare, the peace process in Mindanao on the one hand, and maritime disputes in the South China Sea and China’s growing influence in the Philippines on the other. He has published, among others: “Geopolitics of Scarborough Shoal”, Les Notes de l’IRASEC n°14 – IRASEC’s Discussion Papers #14, 2012 https://irasec.com/Geopolitics-of-Scarborough-Shoal. This research will be updated in 2025. “Charting submarine routes in Southeast Asia”, Hérodote, n° 176, La Découverte, 1st Quarter 2020.

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DR. BENJAMIN BLANDIN

Dr. Benjamin Blandin is an expert in maritime security and a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS), the Korea Institute of Maritime Strategy (KIMS), and Stratbase. He holds MSc degrees in Business and Political Science (Geostrategy, Geopolitics), as well as a PhD in Political Science. Before his academic career, he worked as a Senior Consultant in strategy for leading firms, including Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini, and Airbus Defence and Space.

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