Jean-François Coustillière

Commodore (2S). Founder of JFC Conseil, consulting firm dedicated to Mediterranean issues.  Founding President of Euromed-IHEDN, association which aims at contributing to the Euro-Mediterranean debate, set up in 2004. He is also member of the scientific committee of the Confluences Méditerranée journal, member of the board of IREMMO and lecturer for the Association for Management Progress (APM). He served in the armed forces for 36 years. He was three times in command of a coastal minesweeper, a dispatch boat and a guided-missile frigate. He graduated from the École Navale (French Naval Academy) and the Ecole supérieure de Guerre navale.