Lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University and the Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy at Tulane University; affiliate with the Center on European Studies at Harvard University; member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; former visiting fellow with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Security Studies Program; reserve officer in the French navy, specializing in policy planning; former consultant to the military mission at the French Embassy in the United States, to the French Foreign Ministry's Policy Planning Staff and to the Delegation for Strategic Affairs in the French Ministry of Defense; served as a consultant to the U.S. mission to the EU; was a public policy scholar in West European studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; PhD, history, University of Oxford