Laurent BANSEPT
Research Fellow, Security Studies Center
Research Interests:
- Hybrid threats in the gray zone
- Power contest
- Irregular Wars
- Crises in Africa and the Middle East
Colonel Laurent Bansept is a military fellow at Ifri's Security Studies Center (CES) and Ifri’s Defense Research Unit (LRD). He is an Army officer, graduated from the French War College, and holds two masters degrees, in public law and in international relations and strategic negotiations.
He has spent most of his career in the Special Forces, and has conducted or commanded numerous missions in most crisis areas of the last twenty years. He also has extensive experience in designing operations at the strategic level.
Familiar with action in joint, interagency and international environments, his work naturally focuses on new conflictuality involving multi-domain engagements, evolution in militarized gray zone and hybrid threats.