Frédéric Charillon is a university professor at Paris Cité University, and co-director of the Geopolitics Defence and Leadership programme at ESSEC Business School. He also teaches at Sciences Po, at Clermont Auvergne University and at the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez. He directed the Centre for Studies in Defence Social Sciences (Ministry of Defence, Paris), the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School, and coordinated the teaching of international issues at the ENA.

He publishes a weekly column in the daily newspaper L'Opinion, and has published numerous works, including Wars of Influence (Odile Jacob, 2022), France in the World (CNRS, 2021), Global Diplomacy (with Th. Balzacq and F. Ramel, Palgrave, 2020). Isabelle Lasserre Isabelle Lasserre is a diplomatic correspondent for Le Figaro. She has been a correspondent in Moscow, a defence correspondent and a war reporter for the same newspaper. Her last two books were published by Editions de l'Observatoire: “Macron the Disruptor, the foreign policy of an anti-system president” (spring 2022) and “Macron-Putin, dangerous liaisons” (2023). She is also a columnist for LCPI/24H00 Pujadas and a contributor to “Politique Internationale”.