Dr. Laurence Nardon heads Ifri’s Program on the United States. She edits the Program’s online series of Potomac Papers and coordinates the chapter on the U.S. in the annual Ifri report Ramses. She is currently researching U.S. politics, with a focus on the evolutions of conservatism. She also teaches a class on Civil Society in the United States at Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Prior to joining Ifri, she was a research fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), then a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC from 2001 to 2003.

Laurence Nardon holds a Ph.D. in political science from Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She studied at the University of Kent at Canterbury, after graduating from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. In the Fall of 2000, she was a Fulbright Scholar at George Washington University.