A graduate of Sciences-Po and a PhD in Geopolitics from the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis, first prize at the National Competition for Resistance and Deportation (1987), Frédéric Encel is professor of international relations at the École supérieure de gestion. Ability to direct research, he is also a senior lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and intervenes at the preparation center at the ENA of the Institute of Political Studies in Rennes. Apart from his academic activities, he is a geopolitical consultant for public and private companies working for export.

Formed by Yves Lacoste at the Center for Research and Analysis in Geopolitics (CRAG, later French Institute of Geopolitics), he is a specialist in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His work and publications focus on strategic issues, international relations (Middle East in particular), the defense of secularism and women's equality.

In 1998, he wrote Geopolitics of Jerusalem, about his doctoral thesis. The following year, he wrote The Middle East between war and peace. A geopolitical Golan. In 2000, he published The Art of War by Example. Strategies and battles. Following the events of September 11, 2001, he wrote Geopolitics of the Apocalypse. Democracy under the test of Islamism in 2002. In collaboration with Olivier Guez, the following year, he published La Grande Alliance. From Chechnya to Iraq: a new world order. In 2004, he wrote with François Thual Géopolitics of Israel. Dictionary to get out of fantasies. His penultimate essay to date, Understanding the Middle East. A necessity for the Republic, co-authored with Eric Keslassy, ​​dealt with the potential threat of a "bad import of the Middle East conflict in France for national cohesion."