Richard Balme is an agrégé du supérieur in political science and university professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He is Director of the Master "International Governance and Diplomacy" at the Ecole des Affaires Internationales and of the Executive Master "Politics and Management of Development - African Potential". He is also the moderator of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Environmental Research at Sciences Po.
Richard Balme has taught at the University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University in Beijing and Columbia University in New York. I has been appointed as an Associate of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, European and International Affairs Section, 2012-2014. He is an elected member of the Council of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (2016-2020).