Laurence Nardon heads the Americas Program at Ifri. Since June 2019, she has been analyzing US political issues every Wednesday in the podcast "New Deal," produced in partnership with Slate.fr and the newsletter Time to Sign Off (TTSO). She published Géopolitique de la puissance américaine (The Geopolitics of American Power) with PUF in August 2024, following L'Amérique de Trump en 100 questions (Trump's America in 100 Questions) with Tallandier in 2018.

Before joining Ifri, Laurence Nardon was a research fellow at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), then a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. Laurence Nardon holds a PhD in political science from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She studied at the University of Kent in Canterbury after graduating from Sciences Po Paris. In the fall of 2000, she was a Fulbright Scholar at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.