Damien DEGEORGES
Associate Research Fellow in 2016
Areas of expertise:
- Arctic
- Nordic countries
Dr. Damien Degeorges coordinated the Norden Initiative, Ifri's Franco-Nordic platform of exchanges established in 2014. He is the director of a communication and strategy consultancy based in Reykjavík, Iceland.
He holds a doctoral degree in political science and graduated in political communication as well as in Nordic studies. His research focuses mainly on the challenges of the Arctic, with a focus on Greenland and Iceland, meeting places of American, European and Asian interests in the region, as well as on the place of the Nordic countries in international relations. He also follows the relations between the Nordic countries and the European Union as well as the areas where the Nordic countries raise a particular interest in France.
He regularly intervenes during conferences as well as in French and international media. He speaks fluently French, English and Danish.
The focus on the power confrontation between China and the U.S. has for a while been directed towards the South China Sea, but a focus should be given to the Arctic region, where the second act is already ongoing.
At the crossroads of American, European and Asian interests in the Arctic, Greenland and Iceland, the importance of which had for too long been underestimated, are set to play a central role in future regional developments. In order to exploit the potential of their growing economic ties with...