Paris Naval Conference 2025: Naval Power in support of Maritime Economy
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This third edition of the Paris Naval Conference (CNP), bringing together high-level speakers from the military, industry and academia, aims to address the issues of securing the maritime economy for the world's navies.
Playing a crucial role in the global economy, the maritime economy, which includes maritime transport, fishing, the extraction of underwater resources, the leisure and tourism sectors and, increasingly, marine renewable energies, is particularly exposed to the deterioration of international relations when it is expressed primarily in common spaces. As such, it seems inexorably destined to (re)become an essential issue for the navies in charge of securing maritime activities.
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Dr. Thomas Gomart, Director of Ifri
Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French Minister for Ecological Transition, Environment and the Sea
Speakers:
- Admiral Nicolas Vaujour, Chief of French Navy
- Vice-Admiral Jeffrey Anderson, Commander of the 6th Fleet, U.S. Navy, and Commander of the Striking and Support Forces NATO
- Rear Admiral Olivier Berdal, Chief of the Royal Norwegian Navy
- Admiral Sir Ben Key, First Sea Lord, Royal Navy
- Rear Admiral Søren Kjeldsen, Chief of the Royal Danish Navy
1:45pm - 2:00 pm | Presentation of the « Admiral Castex » prize
- Simon Bergulf, Group Representative Europe Public and Regulatory Affairs, Head of Energy transition and Operations, Maersk
- Emily Holland, Deputy Political Advisor for Critical Undersea Infrastructure, NATO Maritime Command
- Rear-Admiral Patrick Hayden, Director of Maritime HQ and Director of Logistics, Ordnance and Engineering, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Africa, U.S. 6th Fleet
- Edouard Louis-Dreyfus, chairman of Armateurs de France
- Elisabeth Braw, Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
- Nick Childs, Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security, International Institute for Strategic Studies
- Nicolas Mazzucchi, Research director of French Navy Center for Strategic Studies
Christine Cabau, Executive Vice-President in Charge of Assets and Operations, CMA-CGM
Thomas Gomart, Director of Ifri
This conference will take place in French and English with simultaneous interpretation.
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For any question regarding the conference, please contact the Security Studies Center: [email protected]. If you wish to attend the press conference in person, or are a member of the press, you can reach out to our media manager Natacha Crance ([email protected]).
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