Fellow of the Open Diplomacy Institute, he was appointed French Delegate to the 2025 G20 Youth Summit (Y20) in Johannesburg and Co-Chair of the 2026 G7 Youth Summit (Y7).Independent consultant on geopolitics and defence, a researcher at the Euro Créative think tank, and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Lyon and ILERI. He regularly appears in the French media, notably as a commentator for the LCI channel, and in international media, to analyse strategic developments. Aurélien Duchêne is the author of Russia: The Next Strategic Surprise? (2021), which notably predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin’s Russia versus the West (Eyrolles, 2024), which has been translated into Polish, and Europe and its Armies (Eyrolles, 2026), co-authored with Robin Gastaldi. He also regularly writes for major newspapers (Le Monde, Le Figaro…) or specialist journals.
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