Carol Isoux is a French journalist and foreign correspondent who has spent the past fifteen years reporting from Southeast Asia for major French and international media. Her work spans print (Libération, Paris Match, South China Morning Post, XXI,,,), radio (France Culture) as well as television — Arte, M6, TV5 Monde, Al Jazeera.
After three years in Shanghai, she moved to Bangkok in 2010 during the Red Shirt protests and has since covered the region’s major social, political, and environmental transformations. Her long-term reporting has explored youth movements, ecological crises, and democratic transitions across Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and beyond.
She has developed expertise on Myanmar’s civil war and the complex dynamics of its armed groups, as well as on organized crime networks operating across Southeast Asia. Her investigations often uncover the intersection between politics, conflict, and illicit economies — from human trafficking and drug smuggling to environmental crimes in conflict zones. Working mostly alone, immersing herself deeply in the field, she aims to connect through her reporting the intimate with the geopolitical, the small story with the big one.
Several of her investigations have received support from the European Centre for Journalism, including reports about counterfeit medicine trafficking in Cambodia, corruption of high-ranking officials in the Philippine health sector, and biodiversity conservation amid warfare in Myanmar. In 2025, her exclusive coverage of human trafficking and cyber-scam compounds in Myanmar — discussed at the WARM Academy — was selected as a finalist for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism by the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
She holds two Master’s degrees: one in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and one in Humanities from La Sorbonne. She recently relocated to Paris, France, where she is currently developing new projects on artificial intelligence and neuro-mental health.
