Bruno Tertrais

Dr. Bruno Tertrais is Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS) and an Adviser for Geopolitics at Institut Montaigne. His areas of expertise include geopolitics and international relations, strategic and military affairs, nuclear deterrence and non-proliferation, US policy and transatlantic relations, security in the Middle East and in Asia. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at FRS, a Visiting Fellow at the RAND Corporation, a Special Assistant to the Director of Strategic Affairs at the Ministry of Defense, and the Director of the Civilian Affairs Committee at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He was a member of the Commissions on the White Paper on Defense and National Security appointed by Presidents Sarkozy (2007) and Hollande (2012). He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor by the President of the Republic in 2014.