Marie Lecomte-Tilouine is Research Director at the Social Anthropology Laboratory (LAS) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and a part of the Anthropology of Life project's research team. Lecomte-Tilouine has published widely on a variety of subjects, including on sovereignty and divinity, Maoism in Nepal, sacrifice, and Nepalese oral traditions. 

The "Stateless Sovereignties" speaker series seeks to explore the concept and practice of sovereignty outside of its traditional euro- and state centric heritage and definitions, by inviting internationally renown scholars to unpack, pluralize and disassemble the concept with perspectives coming from the margins of the global order. By moving sovereignty beyond its conventional connection to statehood, the series aims to adapt the concept to a new set of circumstances, so that it may better account for the many radical experiments with governance across the world, and the rapid changes impacting peoples' ways of relating to each other.