Dr. Laure Gillot-Assayag is a specialist in democratic theory and democratic participation. She is currently a UNU-CRIS Visiting Fellow, Senior fellow of the Global Governance Institute (Brussels), and a “Democratic Vistas” Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to that, she served as a Policy Analyst at the European Parliament, as a Legislative Fellow in the U.S. Congress (Washington, D.C.), and at the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. She also contributed her expertise as a consultant on democratic education for the UN. Laure received her PhD in Political Studies from EHESS (Paris, France) in 2025, with a dissertation on participatory and deliberative democracy. She holds a university diploma in Korean Studies from the University of Bordeaux and four master’s degrees in law, history, and philosophy, from French universities and grandes écoles.