Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer (@jeangene_vilmer) is the director of the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM, French Ministry of Defense), an Adjunct Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po), and the chair of War Studies at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH). Previously a policy adviser on security issues at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Policy Planning Staff, a Banting postdoctoral fellow at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, and a Lecturer in international relations at the Department of War Studies of King’s College London, he holds degrees in philosophy, law and political science. The author of more than 15 books, he is a member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Sanremo (IIHL), and of the Academic Advisory Board of NATO Defense College in Rome.