Dr. Emmanuel Pannier, anthropologist, is a research fellow at French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), in a Research Unit called “local heritage, environment and globalization” (IRD & National Museum of Natural History). He is also associate researcher at Center for Southeast Asian Studies (EHESS-CNRS-INALCO). Emmanuel lived in Vietnam since 2005 and is now hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities of Hanoi. His research areas are mainly in the field of “economic anthropology” and deal with non-commercial flows, social networks and socio-anthropology of social change and development projects in rural area of Vietnam. He is now involved in GEMMES-VN (AFD) project on Socio-Economic impacts of climate change in Vietnam and adaptation strategies.