Bruno Tertrais is Deputy Director of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (Foundation for Strategic Research, FRS), the main French think-tank on international security issues, and a non-Resident Fellow at Institut Montaigne. His areas of expertise include geopolitics and international relations, strategic and military affairs, as well as political demography. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at FRS (2001-2016), a Special Assistant to the Director of Strategic Affairs at the Ministry of Defense (1993-2001), and a Director of the Civilian Affairs Committee at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (1990-1993). In 1995-1996, he was a Visiting at the RAND Corporation. He was a member of the Commissions on the White Paper on Defense and National Security appointed by President Sarkozy (2007) and Hollande (2012), and a scientific adviser to the French government’s High Commissioner for Planning (2020-2021). In 2016, he was awarded the Legion of Honor by President Hollande. He is also an officer in the Order of the Merit. He has a monthly column on geopolitics in the weekly Le Point.
