Margaux Portron is currently deputy director for Artraker, an organization that showcases and supports conflict art. As part of the role she manages projects by artists, curators, policymakers and journalists. Her research focuses on the importance of creativity in peacemaking and policy-writing, a subject on which she has lectured at Central St Martin's, University of London. She has recently finished her Ph.D. in political theory at Paris 8 University, where she worked on the relationship between drone warfare and contemporary democracies. She holds an M.A. in art and politics from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and a B.A. in cultural studies from Lille 3 University, France.