Vice President and Former President
Professor and Director of INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) at Ulster University
Elise Féron was Président of Pilot4dev for 2 years in 2024 and 2025. She is now Vice President of the organization.
Prof. Elise Féron, has been appointed Professor and Director of INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) at Ulster University. She is also the co-editor of the Journal of Disappearance Studies.
Before that, she worked as a senior research fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (Finland). She is also invited professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium), at the University of Turin (Italy), at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and at the Université Lumière de Bujumbura (Burundi) where she co-convenes a Gender Studies Master Programme. She holds an Accreditation to Supervise Research (Docent) and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Lille (France, 2003 and 1999).
She has launched and participated in various projects in Europe and in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, and has chaired 7 major international projects over the past 15 years, among which two major EU funded FP6 and FP7 projects, and one KONE Foundation project called “Regional Challenges to Multilateralism”.
Her research interests include diaspora studies, post-colonial and decolonial studies, as well as gender studies. She is the author of more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, 3 monographs and 7 edited or coedited books and special journal issues, among which Revisiting Regionalism and the Contemporary World Order (Leverkusen-Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2019, co-edited with Jyrki Käkönen and Gabriel Rached) and Shedding light on a changing international order: theoretical and empirical challenges (Tampere: TAPRI Book Series, 2020, co-edited with Marko Juutinen, Jyrki Käkönen and Karim Maïche). She is also the author of around 30 policy briefs and research reports, and of more than a hundred conference papers.
