Dr Reia Anquet is an interdisciplinary researcher who works on public policy and decolonisation, settler-colonial governance, and the affective dimensions of policy-making in Australia and the Indo-Pacific. She completed her PhD at Université Grenoble Alpes in 2025, where her research examined Australian native title policy through public policy theory, with a focus on power, law, and Indigenous agency in processes of recognition and reconciliation. She is currently an Attachée Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche (ATER) at the Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, teaching Anglophone civilisation and literature with a regional focus on the Pacific. She is a Visiting Fellow at RegNet, ANU as part of the Australia–France Indo-Pacific Studies programme. Her research fellowship is supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Reia previously was on faculty at the Political Science Institute of Grenoble (Sciences Po Grenoble), as well as in the Law and Language Faculties of Université Grenoble Alpes. She began her career as a secondary school teacher in Japan and France. Her current project, Rising Seas, explores sea-level rise governance across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with a focus on Indigenous knowledge, local agency, and lived experiences of climate policy.