Christophe Caupenne

About Christophe Caupenne

A graduate with a DEUG from the École supérieure des Inspecteurs de la Police Nationale, Christophe Caupenne also holds a Professional License in Crisis Situation Negotiation (RAID), a University Diploma in criminology applied to mental expertise from the René Descartes Faculty of Medicine (Paris V). He also possesses a Professional Master II in Expert Negotiation of Crisis Situations.

From 2000 to 2011, Christophe Caupenne was a member of RAID, serving as Police Commander, Head of the “Crisis Management and Negotiation” group. During these 11 years of experience within an elite unit of the French National Police, he was notably at the heart of 23 hostage release missions abroad, several negotiations with Greenpeace, and also dealt with issues related to exceptional or sensitive sites (energy production plants, water treatment centers, research centers and experimental laboratories, the Channel Tunnel, SEVESO sites, enclaves and diplomatic representations, prisons, luxury liners, etc.).

Christophe Caupenne is also a founding member and expert at the INWG (International Work Group of Negotiation – FBI/CN) representing 40 countries among the most relevant in terms of employing crisis negotiators. He is a reference expert with EUROPOL, as well as with the ATLAS Group (an entity bringing together all European intervention units), and a “Kidnapping Negotiation” expert with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the initiator, coordinator, and expert of the C.I.N. (Interministerial Negotiation Cell) – RAID/GIGN/MAE (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

Christophe Caupenne is currently a consultant specializing in assistance, training, advice, and coaching, for the benefit of private companies or state partners, executives, Comex or management teams, as well as in research and teaching. He is also a founding member of the think-tank “Institut confiances”. He is an expert with a large number of companies and institutional entities on conflict management, psychosocial risks, complex negotiations, communication in crisis situations, risk diagnostics, profile and personality studies, strategy for managing complex situations, complex or high-stakes negotiations, negotiation psychology, managing incivilities, and relations with the judicial world. His references include: BNP, ACCOR group, Galeries Lafayette, SNCF, Disney, Oberthur, and many others. Also a trainer, he has mastered teaching with nearly 11 years of pedagogical practice in Higher Schools and Universities.

He has published, among others:

• “Négociateur au RAID” ed. Le Cherche midi (2009)
• “Le RAID, unité d’intervention de la PN”: ed. Crépin Leblond (2005)
• “Les dangerosités” co-authored with John Libbey editions (2004)