Pauline Ravinet is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Lille. Her research focus on the transformations of Higher education in the context of Europeanization and globalisation.Together with Meng-Hsuan (NTU Singapore), she has run a project comparing higher education regional initiatives in Europe and Southeast Asia. Within the H2020 project S4D4C coordinated at the ZSI (Vienna), she is now researching EU Science Diplomacy, and exploring interfaces between knowledge policies and diplomacy. Pauline Ravinet is also Vice-President for European Affairs of the University of Lille, and member of the expert Board of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (Direction Europe de l’Ouest).