Biographie

Alice Pannier is in charge of the Geopolitics of Technologies program, launched at Ifri in October 2020, after having been an associate researcher since 2019. Her research focuses on the geopolitical dimension of new technologies, European technology policies, and transatlantic relations. She has also worked for a long time on European security and foreign and defense policies of European countries, particularly France and the United Kingdom.

From 2017 to 2020, she was an assistant professor of international relations and European studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. She also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Strategic Research Institute of the Ecole Militaire (IRSEM). She is a graduate of King’s College London and the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne and holds a PhD in political science from the IEP in Paris, co-directed with King’s College. She is the author of Rivals in Arms: The Rise of UK-France Defence Relations in the 21st Century (McGill-Queen’s University Press, October 2020) and co-author, with Olivier Schmitt, of French Defence Policy since the End of the Cold War (Routledge, February 2021).