The role of the Scientific Advisory Board is to evaluate the Institute’s activities and actively participate in the definition of its strategic orientation. This board meets twice a year in order to establish the list of candidates selected for a stay in the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies, in consultation with the director. Besides these meetings, the members of the Scientific Advisory Board are invited to disseminate information about the Institute, recommend researchers that should be invited, and regularly provide their opinion to the director.
In the long run, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute will include 12 members designated by the Board of Trustees, under recommendation of the director, to serve on a three years basis. Currently, the scientific advisory board includes the following members :
- Fehti Benslama, Professor at Paris VII University, Director of Clinical Human Sciences Department, France/Tunisia.
- Alain Desrosières , Civil Servant at the French Stratistics Central Agency (INSEE), Member of the Alexandre Koiré’s Research Center for History of Sciences (EHESS, Paris).
- Bernard Flusin, Professor at university Paris IV, Directo of studies EPHE
- Hartmut Kaelble , Professor at the Institute for History Sciences, Humbold University, Berlin, Germany.
- Sunil Khilnani, Professor of Politics, Director King’s India Institute, King’s College London, G.B.
- Ota de Leonardis , Professor of sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
- Danouta Liberski-Bagnoud, Ethnologist, CNRS
- Charles Malamoud, Eminent Director of Indian religions’ Studies, Practical School of High Studies, France.
- Annie Montaut, Professor of Hindi/Indian and general linguistics at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France.
- Jean-Noel Robert, Director of Japanese Studies, Practical School of High Studies, France.
- Ousmane Sidibe, Professor of Law at the University of Bamako, Mali.
- Franciscus Verellen, Director of the French Far East Institute (EFEO), "History of Taoïsm" Fellowship, France.
Chairman: Jean-Noël Robert