On March 4, 2021, the French Ambassador to Thailand, Thierry Mathou, was welcomed at the EFEO Center in Chiang Mai by its director, Yves Goudineau, and by Jacques Leider, director of the EFEO Center in Bangkok.

After a presentation of the EFEO's activities in Thailand and the European projects it is piloting in the region, the ambassador took part in a round-table discussion on the human and social sciences that brought together some twenty people: academics, publishers, and journalists.