Sébastien Abis

Sébastien Abis has been, since 2017, the Director of the Club DEMETER, a strategic foresight ecosystem bringing together companies from the agricultural, agri-industrial and halio-food sectors, as well as institutional, academic, scientific and European partners.

An Associate Research Fellow at IRIS, Sébastien Abis has for 20 years developed a cross-cutting geopolitical analysis structured around three major fields (agriculture-food systems, conflicts and human security, geo-economic intelligence) and three key geographical areas (France-Europe, the Mediterranean-Middle East, and oceanic worlds).

He has been a weekly guest expert on LCI since 2023 and also writes a twice-monthly column on agricultural and food geopolitics for BFM Business since 2024. He teaches at the Catholic University and Junia-Ingénieurs (Lille), at IRIS Sup’ (Paris), and at UM6P (Rabat). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Futuribles, of the mission committee of the Avril group, of the supervisory board of the Grand Port Maritime de La Rochelle, and of the Cercle Sully. He also contributes as a columnist to the daily newspaper L’Opinion, the journal Sésame and the annual publication CyclOpe.

Sébastien Abis is the Director of Le Déméter, a leading annual academic publication devoted to agro-food and environmental foresight. He is the author of numerous books, including the most recent: Russie-Ukraine, la guerre hybride (2026), Veut-on nourrir le monde? Franchir l’Everest alimentaire en 2050 (2024), Géopolitique des céréales (2024), Géopolitique du blé (2023), and Géopolitique de la mer (2022).

An Officer in the Citizens’ Reserve of the French Navy and a Knight of the French Order of Agricultural Merit, he is frequently consulted and heard by French and European public authorities.

A graduate of the University of Lille II (Master’s degree in History and Geography) and of Sciences Po Lille (Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Studies), he has worked at the French Ministry of Defence (2004), then at the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) from 2005 to 2016. He has also contributed to the work of several think tanks (CALAME, iReMMO, Euromed-IHEDN, IEMed, Il Nodo di Gordio).