Our Research Fellows

Ifri has a base of about thirty permanent in-house researcher fellows, in addition to associate researcher fellows and advisors who contribute to the work of the institute.

Alain ANTIL

Researcher and Head of the Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Ifri

Olivier APPERT

Senior Advisor, Energy and Climate Center, Ifri

Stéphane AUDRAND

Associate Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, Ifri

Benjamin AUGÉ

Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Ifri

Pavel BAEV

Associate Research Fellow, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Adel BAKAWAN

Associate Research Fellow, Turkey and Middle East Program, Ifri

Denis BAUCHARD

Senior Advisor, Turkey/Middle East Program, Ifri

Anne-Lorraine BUJON

Advisor, Americas Program, Ifri

Sylvie CORNOT-GANDOLPHE

Associate Research Fellow, Energy and Climate Center, Ifri

Arthur DAEMERS

Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate, Ifri

Galip DALAY

Associate Research Fellow, Turkey/Middle East Program, Ifri

Raphaël DANINO-PERRAUD

Associate Research Fellow, Energy and Climate Center, Ifri

Dominique DAVID

Chair of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (ÖFZ), Advisor to the Executive Chairman, Editor-in-chief of Politique étrangère and co-Director of Ramses

Thierry de MONTBRIAL

Founder and Executive Chairman of Ifri - Member of the Institut de France (Académie des Sciences morales et politiques)

Laure de ROUCY-ROCHEGONDE

Director, Center for Geopolitics of Technology, Ifri

Aurélien DENIZEAU

Associate Research Fellow, Turkey/Middle East Program, Ifri

Elisa DOMINGUES DOS SANTOS

Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center and Turkey/Middle East Program, Ifri

Florence DUVEILLER

Military Fellow, Defense Research Unit of the Security Studies Center, Ifri

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA

Director, Center for Energy & Climate, Ifri

Héloïse FAYET

Research Fellow and Head of the Deterrence and Proliferation program, Security Studies Center, Ifri

Guillaume FURGOLLE

Military Fellow, Defense Research Unit of the Security Studies Center, Ifri

Guillaume GARNIER

Associate Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, Ifri

François GAULME

Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Ifri

Thomas GOMART

Director of Ifri

Jean-Baptiste GUYOT

Military Fellow, Defense Research Unit, Security Studies Center, Ifri

Marc HECKER

Executive Director of Ifri, Editor-in-Chief of Politique étrangère, and Research Fellow at the Security Studies Center, Ifri

Sébastien JEAN

Associate Director of Ifri's Geoeconomics and Geofinance initiative

Marc JULIENNE

Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN

Director of the Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Marie KRPATA

Research Fellow, Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa), Ifri

Hugo LE PICARD

Associate Research Fellow, Center for Geopolitics of Technology, Ifri

Christian LECHERVY

Advisor to the Program on Pacific Islands, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

Alexander T. J. LENNON

Advisor, Americas Program, Ifri

Juliette LOESCH

Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

Jean-Louis LOZIER

Advisor, Security Studies Center, Ifri

Sylvia MALINBAUM

Research Fellow, Head of India and South Asia Research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

Florent MARCIACQ

Associate Research Fellow and Deputy Secretary General of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (ÖFZ), Ifri

Jean-Louis MARTIN

Associate Research Fellow, Americas Program and Energy and Climate Center, Ifri

Paul MAURICE

Secretary General of the Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa), Ifri

Thibault MICHEL

Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate, Ifri

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