Director, Foundation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris

Expertise:
•    European Security Affairs
•    Nuclear Policy - Deterrence, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation
•    Missile Defence

Appointed managing director of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique by its board in May 2008, Camille Grand has been in office since September 1st, 2008. From the fall 2009 till spring 2010, he served as a civilian adviser to the group of experts on a New Strategic Concept for NATO chaired by Mrs. Madeleine Albright. Prior to this assignment, he was deputy director for disarmament and multilateral affairs in the directorate for strategic, security and disarmament affairs of the French ministry of foreign affairs (2006-08). In this capacity, he was in charge of chemical and biological non-proliferation, conventional arms control, small arms and light weapons, land mines and cluster munitions, OSCE and Council of Europe affairs, and has been directly involved in several arms control negotiations (i.a. CFE Treaty, cluster munitions treaty, CWC and BTWC review conferences). He has also been the French representative in several groups within the EU (CODUN, COSCE) and NATO (HLTF). He was previously the deputy diplomatic adviser to the French minister of defence, Mrs. Alliot-Marie (2002-2006). He also served as an expert on nuclear policy and non-proliferation in the strategic affairs department of the French MoD (1999-2002), and was an associate fellow in the the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI) (2000-2002).