Laure Mandeville has been a senior reporter at Le Figaro for 34 years, covering Russia, Europe, and the United States, and hosts a weekly page called “Debates Around the World.”

Laure Mandeville holds degrees in Russian and Polish languages and civilizations from the University of Toulouse, a degree from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and a DEA in Soviet studies. She was a visiting fellow at Harvard University as a Fulbright and Sachs scholar.

She joined Le Figaro’s foreign service in 1989 to cover the end of communism. She then covered the entire post-Soviet world (Eastern Europe, Russia, the Baltic States, the Caucasus, Ukraine, Central Asia) for 20 years. She was the head of Le Figaro’s Moscow bureau from 1997 to 2000 and the Washington bureau chief from 2008 to 2016. She also covered Islam in Europe from 2001 to 2008.

Laure Mandeville is the author, along with Constantin Sigov, of “When Ukraine Rises, the Birth of a New Europe” (2022), “The Western Rebels, from Trump to Zemmour, What is Really Happening?” (2022, Editions de l’Observatoire), “Who Really is Donald Trump?” (Les Equateurs, 2016), “The Russian Reconquest” (Grasset, 2008), which received the Louis Pauwels Prize and the Ailleurs Prize in 2009, and “The Russian Army, Power in Tatters” (Ed n°1, 1994).

She is a member of the editorial board of Politique Internationale, a journal to which she regularly contributes, and is a regular guest on the LCI channel and the shows “C’est dans l’Air” and “C’est Ce Soir.” Laure Mandeville is the co-founder of the Tocqueville Conversations on democracy, where she leads the intellectual project, and a board member of the Tocqueville Foundation. She is also an associate member of the American think tank, the Atlantic Council.