Chairman of the IISS and of the Geneva Centre for
Security Policy (Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique,
Paris)
1978-79 Member of the French Foreign Ministry's
Policy Planning Staff (Centre d'analyse et de Prévision), in charge of nuclear
non-proliferation issues
1979-81 First Secretary at the French Permanent
Mission to the U.N. (New-York), dealing with international security and
disarmament issues
1981-84 International security adviser
to the French Minister of Defence. Founding-member of the French-German
Commission on Security and Defence
1984-87 Vice-President at Thomson-CSF,
in charge of European and Euro-American cooperation
1987-92 Director of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
1992-98 Senior Vice-President
(Strategic development), MATRA-Défense-Espace
Subsequently:
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Special Advisor, Fondation pour la
Recherche Stratégique, Paris (since May 2005)
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Member of the International
Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament [ICNND] (2008-2010)
- Member of the French "Defence and
National Security White Paper" Presidential Commission (2007-2008)
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Member of the French Government’s
Steering Committee for the White Paper on Terrorism (2005-2006)
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Member of the International
Commission on the Balkans (2004-2006)
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Member of the European
Commission’s Group of Personalities on Security R & D (2003-2004)
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Director, Fondation pour la
Recherche Stratégique, Paris (May 2001-2005)
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Chairman of the IISS Council
(since September 2001)
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Professor of “World Politics” at
Sciences-Po Paris (1999-2001)
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Head of interagency working group
(groupe de travail interministériel) on the study of international
relations, strategic affairs and defence issues in France (1999-2000)
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Chairman, Foundation Council of
the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (since December 1998)
PUBLICATIONS:
Numerous articles and interviews in the
academic and general media
Author of Renseignement et espionnage: le vrai
dossier, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2012
Editor and
co-author of Les Conséquences de la crise, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2010 and Les
Armes nucléaires ont-elles un avenir?, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2011
Author of Vainqueurs et Vaincus: lendemains de crise, Stock, Paris 2010;
Après Al Qaida, Stock, Paris 2009; L'Épaisseur
du monde, Stock, Paris 2007; L'Iran; le choix des armes?, Stock,
Paris 2007; Le Terrorisme en France aujourd’h’ui (co. authored
with J.L. Marret), Equateurs, Paris, 2006; La fin de L’Occident? L’Amerique,
L’Europe et le Moyen-Orient, O. Jacob, Paris, 2005
Co-author and Editor of European
Defence: Making It Work, WEU Policy for Security Studies, Paris, 2000, and
of Readings in International Security, CEPS-IISS, Brussels-London (5
volumes, 2002 to 2008)
Author of Hyperterrorisme: la
nouvelle guerre, (co-authored with Fondation pour la Recherche
Stratégique), Odile Jacob, 2001 (‘‘Edouard Freville’’ prize of the Académie des
Sciences Morales et Politiques); The Future of Warfare, Orion, London
1997; and Les Volontaires de l'An 2000, Balland, Paris, 1995. Author
with Pascal Boniface of La Puce, les Hommes et la Bombe, Hachette, Paris,
1986 ("Amiral Castex" prize for strategic literature)
Contributor to a number of books on
foreign and strategic affairs, including: The Conventional Defence of Europe
(New-York Council on Foreign Relations, 1986), The Shape of the New Europe
(d°, 1991), Western Europe and the Gulf (WEU Institute for Defence
Studies, Paris 1992), Allies divided: Transatlantic Policies for the Greater
Middle East (Harvard U. Press, 1997), Nuclear Weapons in a Transformed
World (St. Martin's Press, New-York 1998)
AFFILIATIONS (inter alia):
Member of the Royal Society for the
Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce
Member of the Conseil de Politique européenne et internationale, CNRS
