Director of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) since 2015. He is a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence’s (IHEDN) scientific committee and on the editorial board of the French journals Politique étrangère, Revue des deux mondes, and Études. Thomas Gomart was a member of the French Ministry of Armed Forces’ strategic review committee for its Strategic Review of Defence and National Security 2017. He has published extensively on Russia, digital issues, think tanks, and geopolitical risk. His most recent book is Qui contrôle qui ? Les nouveaux rapports de force mondiaux (Tallandier, January 2026). He has also authored L’accélération de l’histoire. Les noeuds géostratégiques d’un monde hors de contrôle (Tallandier, January 2024), Les ambitions inavouées. Ce que préparent les grandes puissances (Tallandier, 2023), L’Affolement du monde (Tallandier, 2019) and Guerres invisibles (Tallandier, 2021). He received his EMBA from the Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris and his PhD from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Thomas Gomart has been awarded the rank of Knight of the National Order of Merit.
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