Stéphanie Tawa Lama is a CNRS Research Director (Political Science) at the Centre d’Etudes Sud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes (Cesah – EHESS/CNRS). She studies contemporary Indian democracy through four main themes: political representation (with a special focus on women); political mobilisations; participatory experiences; and urban governance.

Her recent publications include a book on Indian experiments with participatory democracy; a collective volume (co-edited with Amélie Blom) on the role of emotions in political mobilisations; a special issue of India Review on political representation in India; and a series of articles on metropolitan democracy and the Aam Aadmi Party.

She currently supervises 6 PhDs and is a member of the Editorial Board of the online South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ).