Grand reporter and war correspondent at the newspaper Le Figaro. He has covered major political crises and major armed conflicts on the planet for over thirty years. Expert in geopolitics, he publishes every Tuesday his international column in Le Figaro. He has written several books on the Middle East and the major diplomatic issues of the West.

He regularly hosts international conferences. He is also a professor of strategy at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and a member of the editorial board of the Revue des deux Mondes. In 2014 he received the international press prize, awarded by foreign correspondents posted in Paris. Former student of the École normale supérieure and Ena.