About the Author

Guy Faure has studied at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Nagoya University, and Chuo University. He holds a PhD in Politics from the EHESS Paris and is presently Director of the French Research Center on Contemporary Southeast Asia in Bangkok (IRASEC), and Research Fellow at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Laurent Schwab has a PhD in macroeconomics from the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), and has lived for fourteen years in Southeast Asia, mainly in Thailand and Vietnam. He has worked for the United Nations (ESCAP) and as a consultant and educator.