Erwan Lagadec
ERWAN LAGADEC
is a Visiting Fellow at MIT's Security Studies Program. He is also a Reserve Officer in the French Navy, where he contributes to policy planning. His
work focuses on US-EU-NATO relations, as well as transatlantic issues in
Homeland Security.
A French National, Dr. Lagadec holds a D.Phil. in medieval intellectual history from the University of Oxford (2004). He has worked for the French
Foreign Ministry Policy Planning Staff (2003, 2005), the Delegation aux
Affaires Strategiques at the French Ministry of Defense (2005), at the US
mission to the EU (2006), and as a Navy Reserve Officer at the French Permanent Representation to the EU (2007), where he was tasked with
developing proposals for the French EU-US-NATO security agenda ahead of the
French EU presidency in 2008.
In 2004-5 he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a
Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS), working on French-US relations during the 2003
Irak Crisis. In 2005-6 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and an Affiliate at
Harvard University's Center for European Studies. In 2006-2007 he was a
Visiting Fellow at SAIS's Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR), where he
launched the Center's ongoing transatlantic, inter-sector project on"Unconventional Crises, Unconventional Responses: Reforming Leadership in
the Age of Catastrophic Crises and Hypercomplexity." He is a Foreign Policy
Institute Fellow at SAIS, and a member of the International Institute for
Strategic Studies (IISS).
He speaks French and English, and reads Russian, Spanish, German, Italian,
Latin, and Ancient Greek.
ssp@mit.edu
