Camille Grand

Camille Grand is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) since November 2022. He leads the organisation’s work on defence, security and technology. Previously, he served as Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment at NATO (2016-22), directing NATO’s work in capability delivery, air and missile defence, and armament and technology cooperation. He also was the director of the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS, 2008-16), the leading French think tank on defence and security studies. He previously held senior positions in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as deputy-director for disarmament and multilateral affairs (2006-08), and in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as deputy diplomatic adviser to the Minister (2002-06). He has also been a senior adviser on nuclear policy at the French MoD Policy branch and worked as a researcher inter alia at the EU Institute of Security Studies (EU-ISS) and the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI). He is an associate professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po Paris), and ahs also taught at the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA) and the French army academy.