Stéphanie Balme

Stéphanie Balme is the Dean of College of Sciences at Sciences Po College (undergraduate studies). She is a permanent research fellow at CERI and professor at PSIA/Sciences Po and the Euro-Asia Campus/Sciences Po. Balme obtained her Habilitation in Law (qualification as a Ph.D. Supervisor and full professor under the French system) from Sciences Po School of Law in 2016. Previous to her 2001 post-doc position at Hong Kong Baptist University, Stéphanie Balme obtained her Ph.D. from Sciences Po Paris in December 2000. She received a master's degree (M. Phil or Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies, DEA) from Sciences Po, a master's degree (M. Phil DEA) from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Langues’O), the award "Prix de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris" in 1998 as well as a bachelor's degree from the Institute of Political Studies (Bordeaux) and a bachelor's degree from the University of Bordeaux (Department of Humanities). She was an international student at Fudan University (Shanghai, Department of International Relations) from 1992 to 1993. Balme is the program director of Sciences Po's research group “Law, Justice and Society in China” since 2006, and the scientific advisor for the “China and East Asia” concentration at PSIA/Sciences Po. She was a Visiting Professor at Columbia University (Law School–Fall 2014) and both a Visiting Professor and Research Associate at Tsinghua University (Faculty of Law, 2006–2012 in Beijing) and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2003–2006). She co-founded with Professor Wang Zhenmin the Sino-French Rule of Law Dialogue. Balme is among the founding members and now vice-president of the European China Law Studies Association (ECLS) based in Hamburg (Germany) as well as a board member of the GIS/CNRS Asia Pacific Group (Paris). She is a research associate of the Institute of High Studies on Justice (IHEJ) of the French Ministry of Justice, a senior reviewer at the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (2012 to present) and consultant for international organizations and think tanks such as UNDP, the European Union, World Bank, China Policy or Asialyst.