Igor Delanoë

Igor Delanoë is an Associate Researcher at IRIS. His expertise focuses on Russian geopolitics, Russian presence and interests in the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, as well as Russian security and defence issues, particularly the navy.

A Doctor of History from the Côte d’Azur University (Nice), where he defended his thesis in 2012, he has been Deputy Director of the Observatoire Franco-Russe (CCI France-Russia) since 2015.

In 2013, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University) within the National Security Program. He is an Associate Researcher at the Center for International and European Studies (Kadir Has University, Istanbul), the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Studies (CMMC), and the Laboratory of International and European Law (LADIE) at Côte d’Azur University. He has worked 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 delivered lectures at the NATO Defence College (Rome) and currently lectures at the École de Guerre (Paris).

He teaches Russian defence policy at IRIS Sup’, the applied geopolitics school of IRIS, and economic diplomacy at ICES (La Roche-sur-Yon).