Professor Baneth-Nouailhetas, a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of
Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, holds a PhD in Literature from Université Paris III. She is a Professor at Université Rennes 2 and was the Director of International Relations at the Institut national des sciences appliquées Centre Val de Loire. Formerly, she was Vice-President for International Relations at Université Rennes 2, deputy scientific Director at the CNRS's Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, director of an international research center between the CNRS and New York University; she has held the position of Attaché for cooperation in two embassies. Her research focuses on colonial and post-colonial anglophone literature.
Mrs Baneth-Nouailhetas succeeds Mrs Minh-HÃ Pham, who has joined the French Embassy in London as an adviser for science and technology.