Aurelien Mondon is Professor of Politics at the University of Bath, UK and co-convenor of the Reactionary Politics Research Network. His research focuses predominantly on the mainstreaming of reactionary politics through elite discourse. He is the author of The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia: A Populist Hegemony? (2013) and co-author of Reactionary democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream (2020) with Aaron Winter. He is the co-editor of After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, racism and free speech (2017) and The Ethics of Researching the Far Right (2024). His work has appeared in various mainstream and expert outlets around the world, including CNN, The Guardian, The Independent, Libération, Newsweek, Le Soir, Mediapart and Al Jazeera.