Professor Richard Balme directs the Executive Master in Development Policies and Management – Potentiel Afrique at Sciences Po Executive Education in addition to the Master in International Governance and Diplomacy at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). He also teaches comparative politics in Asia at the undergraduate college of Sciences Po. 

Richard Balme is also an associate researcher at the Asian Energy Studies Centre of Hong Kong Baptist University, at China Policy in Beijing, and at the Centre for Earth Politics of Paris-Cité University and Sciences Po. A member of the Board of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris, he was the Alliance Visiting Professor 2017-2018 at Columbia University in New York and regularly teaches at Tsinghua University in Beijing.