Thomas Gomart

About Thomas Gomart

Director of Strategic Development as well as researcher and director of the Russia/NEI Center at IFRI (French Institute of International Relations), Thomas Gomart holds a PhD in the history of international relations (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) and an EMBA degree (HEC). He is also the director of the trilingual electronic collection Russia.Nei.Visions.

His academic and professional background has led him to acquire expertise on the post-Soviet space. As a Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University – Moscow), Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (European Union – Paris), and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of War Studies (King’s College – London), Thomas Gomart has gained diverse and international experience. He taught international affairs at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan (2002-2010).

In 2008, Thomas Gomart co-edited the IFRI/CSIS project Europe, Russia, and the United States: Finding a New Balance.

He is a member of the editorial boards of Foreign Policy and La Revue des Deux Mondes.

Among his publications: Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy (London, Routledge, 2011), Russian Civil-Military Relations: Putin’s Legacy (Washington DC, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2008), Russie.Nei.Visions 2009 (Paris, Ifri, 2009), EU-Russia Relations, Toward a Way Out of Depression (Washington DC, IFRI/CSIS, 2008).

Thomas Gomart regularly appears in French media (Le Monde, La Tribune, France Info…) and foreign media (Nezavissimaïa Gazeta, Kommersant).

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