Education
École Normale Supérieure. Harvard University.
École Normale Supérieure. Harvard University.
He is now a Professor in political science at Sciences Po and the Director for the strategy of Asia Centre, Paris. Professor of political science since 1992, François Godement has received teaching appointments at the University of California, at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) until 2006, at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) from 1985 to 2005, and at Sciences Po, Paris. François Godement is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d"Ulm (Paris), he was a Harvard University postgraduate student, and he holds a Doctor of Philosophy in contemporary history.
His research focuses on China’s foreign affairs, domestic factors of China’s strategic and international conceptions, compared politics in East Asia, integration process in Asia, security and international relations’ architecture in Asia.
He has been a consultant to the Organisation for Economic Company-operation and Development (Organization of European Cooperation and Development), the European Union and the World Bank, and is an outside consultant to the Policy Planning staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a Senior policy fellow of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
He founded Asia Centre in Paris in 2005, was its president until 2009 and then became its Strategy Director.