Frances is a student of geopolitics and international law following a long career in capital markets investing in Sydney and London,She attends Masters degree classes at the University of Paris 2 Sorbonne-Assas, complementing her own research with formal instruction with international law and political-science theory. She also attends lectures at the Jacques Delors Institute and the EU Institute for Security Studies, among other organisations.An occasional contributor to Pearls and Irritations, as well as to LInstitut du Pacifique and LAssociation Ralits et Relations Internationales in Paris, from 2016 to 2023 Frances served as a contributor to and director of TheEuropeanNetwork.eu.As part of her career in capital markets investing, including as Head of Investment Risk for a major British insurer and asset manager, Frances spoke at several professional investment conferences, was a regular contributor to well-known professional journals, author of two monographs published by Palgrave-MacMillan and co-author of one published by Wiley. Australian born, she lives in Paris, speaks French more-or-less fluently, basic Spanish, even more basic Italian, a haze of Indonesian and some German. She dances Argentine tango, likes all animals, especially cats, but doesnt have any of her own.