Cynthia is a Dual Degree (cotutelle) PhD Candidate in political science at Université Laval (UL) and regulation and governance at the Australian National University (ANU). She is co-supervised by Jean-Frédéric Morin and Nicholas Frank, respectively. Her work examines the hybrid global governance of public goods. More precisely, in the context of her doctoral research, she studies the extent, trajectories and drivers of expansion of the role of public-private partnerships in infectious diseases in global health governance. In other collaborative initiatives, she also investigates questions on space governance, looking into the role of hybrid organizations, the state of space debris governance and the design of space arrangements. She holds a master’s degree by research in International Studies from the Graduate School of International Studies (UL). Her research was interdisciplinary between the university departments of political Science and law and focused on the global governance of the pharmaceutical innovation system. She looked at how the ongoing competition between networks of experts in the multilateral context hindered bridge-building in policy solutions.

Her research draws on her interdisciplinary training, rooted in international relations, international political economy and international public law. She has a particular interest in developing refined mixed methods to study hybrid global governance involving large-scale organizations and formal institutions, as well as individuals and intersubjective norms and lived realities. To develop such research designs, she has participated in diverse specialized methods courses, including social network analysis, regressions, digital data, fieldwork and interviews, process-tracing, and advanced qualitative data analysis (i.e. content analysis, thematic analysis, grounded theory). 

Cynthia is a student research member at the Interdisciplinary research centre on global governance (CIRGoM; UL), the Institute for climate, energy & disaster solutions (ICEDS; ANU), the European cooperation in science & technology (COST) Action CA23118 - Futures-oriented Governance of Outer Space: Towards Peace, Equity, and Environmental Integrity (FOGOS) working groups 2 & 5, the Australian research centre for health equity (ARCHE), the Institute on environment, development and society (IEDS; UL), the Research centre on the economy of the environment, agrifood, transports and energy (CREATE; UL), and the Earth System Governance working-group on Earth-Space governance.