Guillaume Lescuyer is a specialist in decentralized forest resource management, particularly in the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia. countries of the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia. After a career in France at the universities of Nanterre and Dauphine École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), then in the Netherlands at the University of Wageningen. He is currently a researcher in the Forêts & Sociétés research unit at CIRAD in Montpellier.