Tsiporah Fried is currently a senior advisor to the Vice Chairman of the French Joint Chiefs of Staff. She is particularly involved in the future defense planning and general military strategy, for which she coordinates the main prospective and strategic studies and initiatives.
She is a strategy analyst and thinker in military international cooperation and international relations, with a focus on European Defense, NATO and Transatlantic relations.
She works also regularly as an advisor to the Chairman on specific issues. She is in charge of the strategic dialogue between the French and US Vice-Chairmen. She recently initiated and directed an international event “ the WIN”, wargame initiative for NATO, to set up a common wargaming understanding and capacity between France, Italy and NATO.
Former senior project manager for military innovation, she was in charge of the Joint Staff task force on artificial intelligence to coordinate the military contribution to the French Defense AI Roadmap. She still follows all international issues and partnerships on AI. Previously, she was a senior auditor at the Cour des Comptes (the highest jurisdiction in charge of public audit and budget control) where she became the expert on the Foreign Affairs department budget control.
She conducted several important audits in the Foreign Affairs department and the Justice department. She served also in leadership positions at the French Navy Staff, as a political advisor to the French Chief of Navy, and among several missions, led the Strategic Bilateral Talks with the US Navy, UK Royal Navy and Indian Navy.
She was awarded the medal of Chevalier (Knight) of the “Ordre national du Mérite”.
As a Navy Reserve Officer, she has also awarded the medal for Voluntary Services Ms Fried is a former student of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA – Class LS Senghor – with classmate President Macron). Considered as one of the most elite French Schools, ENA selects and undertakes the initial training of senior officials. It stands as one of the main pathways to high responsibility positions in the public and private sectors.
Ms Fried has also a MA in Political Sciences and a degree in Russian language and civilization, from the National Institute for Oriental Language and Civilization (INALCO- Langues’O).
She is deputy director of publication of the Alumni ENA Review and president of the Club ENA-NAVY.
