Jean-Loup SAMAAN
Former Associate research fellow, Turkey and Middle East Program
Research Interests:
- Defense policies in the Middle East
- Arab Gulf States
- Israel/Defense and Foreign Policies
- Lebanon/Hizbullah
- United States/Middle East Policy, Indo-Pacific
Jean-Loup Samaan was an associate research fellow at Ifri's programme on contemporary Turkey and the Middle East until May 2024.
Prior to that, Jean-Loup Samaan was a policy analyst at the Directorate for Strategic Affairs of the French Ministry of Defense (2008-2011), a research advisor at the NATO Defense College (2011-2016), and associate professor in strategic studies detached by the US Near East South Asia Center to the UAE National Defense College (2016-2021). He was also a senior research fellow at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore. Jean-Loup Samaan holds a PhD in political science from the University of Paris 1 (2009) and an accreditation to supervise research from Sciences Po (2017).
Moyen Orient / Maghreb