Eric Frécon, now based in Singapore, is Coordinator of the Observatory on Southeast Asia within the Asia Centre, in Paris, and a member of the EU Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). In 2011-2012, he was Deputy Chief Editor of the bimonthly policy and international politics magazine, Diplomatie.
Previously, he served as a post-doctoral fellow within Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Lyon, and as a research fellow within the Indonesia Programme of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Singapore), where he stayed for three years.