Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research
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, and security in the Middle East and Asia. Dr Tertrais was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the FRS (2001-16), a Visiting Fellow at the RAND Corporation (1995-96), a Special Assistant to the Director of Strategic Affairs at the Ministry of Defence (1993-2001), and the Director of the Civilian Affairs Committee at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (1990-92). He was a member of the Commission on the White Paper on Defence and National Security appointed by Presidents Sarkozy (2007) and Hollande (2012). Dr Tertrais received his PhD from Sciences Po in 1984 and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor by the President of the Republic in 2014.