Guillaume Schlumberger

Themes of Research:

Career

•  Since 2025: Associate researcher at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique.

•  2021- 2025 : Controller General of the French Armed Forces on an extraordinary mission. He is also a member of La Défense’s ethics committee, COMEDEF, tasked with making recommendations on issues relating to changes in the profession of arms and the use of new defense technologies.

•  From 2015 to 2021: Director of Defense Strategy, Foresight and Counter-proliferation at the Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy (DGRIS).

•  From 2005 to 2008: head of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS) think tank.

•  From 1987 to 1988, deputy diplomatic adviser to André Giraud, Minister of Defense. Until 2005, assistant to the director in charge of strategic affairs at the Ministry of Defense.

•  From 1985 to 1998, he worked in the International Affairs Department of the French General Delegation for Armaments, then in the Delegation for Strategic Affairs.

•  Graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and ENA.
Publications

Emmanuel Delorme, Bruno Gruselle Et Guillaume Schlumberger (dir.), La Nouvelle Guerre Des étoiles – Idées Reçues Sur La Défense Antimissile, Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, 2013.

Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (dir.) Annuaire stratégique et militaire 2005, Soixante ans après Hiroshima : bilan et perspectives du nucléaire militaire, éditions Odile Jacob, 2005.

CIENS team

Frédéric Gloriant

Director – PhD History
Europe of defense / Nuclear Deterrence / France

Stéphanie Braquehais

Project & Comms Manager

Eve Benhamou

PhD History
Middle-East – Nuclear Defense

Marie-Gabrielle Bertran

PhD Geography
Cybersecurity – Russia

Pierre-Louis Six

PhD History
Russian foreign policy – Nuclear issues – Uranium

Louise Matz

PhD History
Nuclear – Deterrence – Air Force

Elsa Novelli

PhD Philosophy
Cognitive Warfare – Attention Economy – AI

Julien Dubois

PhD Student
Ukraine – Nuclear – Non-Proliferation

Our associate researchers

Yannick Pincé

PhD History
Nuclear issues – Deterrence – Domestic policy

Johanna Möhring

PhD Political Science
AI – Military Command

Maïlys Mangin

PhD Political Science
Iran – Nuclear Defense – AI – Information Warfare

Our associate experts

Laurent Prosperi

PhD in IT

Paul Zajac

Partner Relations Coordinator. CEA Associate Expert

Dominique Mongin

History Lecturer, CEA

Guillaume Schlumberger

Associate researcher at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique

Mélanie Rosselet

Diplomat

Our speakers

Isabelle Facon

Deputy Director at the Strategic Research Foundation

Corentin Brustlein

Political Delegate

Lise Dubois

PhD Student

Founder

Nicolas Roche

Ambassador, CIENS Honorary Chairman