She is a professor at the American University of Paris, and carries out her research at the Conservation Laboratory of Species, Restoration and Monitoring of Populations, National Museum of Natural History. Her work focuses on democratic regulation methods. She is the author of several works: Dialoguer avec l’Orient (PUF, 2003), Les pathologies de la democratie (Fayard publications, 2005; Livre de poche 2009) and La fin du courage (Fayard publications, 2010; Livre de poche publications, 2011).