Igor DELANOE

Igor Delanoë is Deputy Director of the Franco-Russian Observatory (CCI France-Russie) and an associate researcher at IRIS (the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs). He holds a PhD in History from Côte d’Azur University, and his expertise focuses on Russian geopolitics, with a particular emphasis on Russia’s interests in the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, as well as Russian security and defense policy. In 2013, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, within the National Security Program. He is also an associate researcher at the Center for International and European Studies (Kadir Has University, Istanbul), the Center for Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Studies (CMMC), and the Laboratory of International and European Law (LADIE) at Côte d’Azur University. Igor Delanoë has served as a consultant for the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Armed Forces, as well as for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Geneva). He has lectured at the NATO Defense College (Rome) and currently teaches at the École de Guerre (Paris). He also teaches Russian defense policy at IRIS Sup’ (Paris) and economic diplomacy at ICES.