Foundation for Strategic Research - FRS
   (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

(France)

Logo FRS

The FRS, founded in 1998, is an independent research centre and the leading French think tank on defence and security issues. Its team of experts in a variety of disciplines contributes to the strategic debate in France and abroad, and provides unique expertise across the field of defence and security studies. In the sphere of international security, the FRS’ specific focuses are on security doctrines, arms control, proliferation/dissemination issues and challenges, and non-proliferation regimes and policies (small arms, conventional weapons, biological and chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, and their delivery systems). The FRS maintains an active presence in the strategic debate through its publications, its website, and the events it regularly organizes. It is also an active member of the network of European and international research centres.

Contact information

Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique - FRS
4 bis, rue des Pâtures
75016 Paris

Tel : +33 1.43.13.77.77
Fax : +33 1.43.13.77.78
Website: http://www.frstrategie.org
Contacts Resume Speciality
Jean-François Daguzan
Deputy director
Tel: +33 1 43 13 77 98
Fax: +33 1 43 13 77 78
jf.daguzan@frstrategie.org
Jean-François Daguzan (France) is a specialist on Proliferation Issues, Non Conventional Terrorism and more generally on Technology Policy.
He is doctor in Political Science. He was Senior Analyst at the Secretariat général de la Défense nationale, SGDN, of the Prime Minister’s Office (as General Secretary for National Defence) from 1988 until 1991; he then joined the Centre de recherches et d'études sur les stratégies et les technologies de l'Ecole polytechnique, CREST, (Centre for research and study on strategy and technology) now merged with the FRS.
  • Middle East- strategic issues
  • WMD Proliferation
  • Non-conventional Terrorism
Stéphane Delory
Research fellow
Tel: +33 1 43 13 77 54
Fax: +33 1 43 13 77 78
s.delory@frstrategie.org
Stéphane Delory (France) is working on questions of proliferation, and more specifically on ballistic and missile defence issues. He is also a research fellow at the study centre of international security and arms control (CESIM), where he works on proliferation crisis issues, and associate research fellow at the Centre Thucydide (University Paris 2) where he works on security questions related to the Black Sea.
  • Proliferation crisis
  • Ballistic proliferation
  • Missile defence
  • Security policy in the Black sea region
Camille Grand
Director
Tel: +33 1 43 13 77 50
Fax: +33 1 43 13 77 78
c.grand@frstrategie.org
Camille Grand (France) was appointed managing director of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique in May 2008, and has been in office since 1st September 2008. Prior to this appointment, he was deputy director for disarmament and multilateral affairs in the directorate for strategic, security and disarmament affairs of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-08). In this capacity, he was in charge of issues relating to chemical and biological non-proliferation, conventional arms control, small arms and light weapons, land mines and cluster munitions, OSCE and Council of Europe affairs, and has been directly involved in several arms control negotiations. He was also the French representative in several groups within the EU (CODUN, COSCE) and NATO (HLTF).
  • Transatlantic relations and European security (NATO, EU)
  • Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
  • Missile defence
  • Nuclear deterrence
  • Nuclear disarmament
Bruno Gruselle
Senior research fellow
Tel: +33 1 43 13 77 72
Fax: +33 1 43 13 77 78
b.gruselle@frstrategie.org
Bruno Gruselle (France) first joined the FRS in the summer of 2005 to work on WMD Proliferation. In 2010, he rejoined the FRS as a senior fellow on Missile Proliferation and the Missile Industry, Missile Defense and Cybersecurity.
In the meantime he was appointed to the Policy and Planning Staff of the Ministry of Interior in 2008, where he served as senior adviser on various domestic security issues including Organized Crime, Cybersecurity and European Home Security Policy. Before that he served in the policy branch of the MoD on issues related to missile proliferation and the disarmament of Iraq. He also visited Iraq several times with UNSCOM as a weapon’s inspector.
  • Missile proliferation
  • Missile defence
  • Cyber security
Benjamin Hautecouverture
Research fellow
Tel: +33 1 43 13 77 61
Fax: +33 1 43 13 77 78
b.hautecouverture@frstrategie.org
Benjamin Hautecouverture (France) joined the FRS in 2010. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Arms Control and International Security (CESIM) and a Lecturer at the Institute for Political Studies in Paris (Sciences Po Paris). As a member of the FRS, he is specifically conducting European Union projects on the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.
Benjamin Hautecouverture is also the Editor of The Non-Proliferation Monthly (a monthly eight pages newsletter on proliferation, non-proliferation and disarmament issues concerning nuclear, biological, chemical weapons and their delivery systems).
  • Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament
  • Nuclear and radiological security
  • WMD Terrorism
  • European Union strategy and policies against the proliferation of WMD
François Heisbourg
Special advisor
Tel: +33 1 43 13 77 80
Fax: +33 1 43 13 77 78
f.heisbourg@frstrategie.org
François Heisbourg (France) is chairman of the council of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is a special advisor of to the FRS. His career has included positions in government (member of the French mission to the UN, international security adviser to the Minister of Defence), in the defence industry (vice-president of Thomson-CSF, i.e. the present-day Thales; senior vice president for strategy at Matra Défense Espace, today part of EADS) and in academia (professor of world politics at Sciences-Po Paris, director of the IISS). He is also a member of the International Commission on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and has sat on a number of national and international blue-ribbon bodies.
  • Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament
  • Nuclear arms control
  • Nuclear deterrence
  • Terrorism
Perrine Le Meur
Research fellow / PhD candidate
Tel: + 33 1 43 13 77 94
Fax: +33 1 43 13 77 78
p.lemeur@frstrategie.org
Perrine Le Meur (France) is a Research fellow at the FRS and a PhD candidate at the University of Paris II Pantheons-Assas. Her current work on the role of NGOs in conventional disarmament and arms control issues is funded by the French ministry of Defence (more specifically by the General Delegation for Armaments). She previously worked as a desk officer for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (department of Strategic Security and Disarmament Affairs) and received a Masters in Public International Law and a Masters in law (International Administration) from the University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas.
  • Conventional disarmament and arms control issues
  • NGOs and international security
Elisande Nexon
Research fellow
Tel: +33 1 43 13 77 65
Fax: +33 1 43 13 77 78
e.nexon@frstrategie.org
Elisande Nexon (France) has been a Research Fellow at the FRS since 2005. She teaches in the Geopolitics & Geostrategic module of the Masters in “CBRN Health risks”, organized by the Val-de-Grâce School of Military Medicine, in partnership with the Pierre & Marie Curie University (UPMC) and the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA). She also lectures about chemical and biological proliferation and arms control in the Master of International Security from Sciences Po Paris.
  • WMD Terrorism
  • Chemical and biological proliferation
  • Security and strategy of public health
Xavier Pasco
Senior research fellow
Tel: +33-1-4313-7763
Fax: +33-1-4313-7778
x.pasco@frstrategie.org
Xavier Pasco (France) is in charge of the Department "Technology, Space and Security” of the FRS. Until 1997, he was a researcher at CREST (Centre for Research and Evaluation of the relationships between Strategies and Technology), associated with the Ecole Polytechnique.
  • Space
  • High technology policies
  • National security strategy
Benjamin Sanchez
Research fellow / PhD candidate
Tel: + 33 1 43 13 77 41
Fax: +33 1 43 13 77 78
b.sanchez@frstrategie.org
Benjamin Sanchez (France) is a Research Fellow at the FRS and a PhD candidate at the University of Paris-Diderot (Paris 7). His current research activity on the IAEA management of the Iranian nuclear crisis is funded by the French ministry of Defence (General Delegation for Armaments). He received Masters in Foreign Affairs from the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and a Masters in Islamic studies from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE - Sorbonne).
  • Iranian nuclear issues
Bruno Tertrais
Senior research fellow
Tel: +33 1 43 13 77 67
Fax: +33 1 43 13 77 78
b.tertrais@frstrategie.org
Prior to joing the FRS in 2001 Bruno Tertrais (France) was special Assistant to the Director of Strategic Affairs at the Ministry of Defence from 1993 to 2001.He was also visiting Fellow at the RAND Corporation from 1995 to 1996 and Director of the Civilian Affairs Committee at the NATO Assembly from 1990 to 1992. Previously he was Research Assistant at NATO Assembly (1989).
  • Conflict
  • Nuclear proliferation
  • Nuclear deterrence
  • Military strategy
  • Terrorism