Collaborator
Maud Quessard is Research Director at the Institute for Strategic Research of the French War College (IRSEM), where she has headed the Europe, Transatlantic Space and Russia programme since 2020, and Associate Professor of American foreign policy. She holds a PhD in North American studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2009) and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Department of History and Belfer Center in 2015. Her work addresses United States public diplomacy and influence strategies, information warfare, and the contemporary transformations of American power. She co-directs the Observatory of American Foreign Policy with Jean-Baptiste Velut, co-leads the ANR…
Emerging Scholar
Matthew Rainsford is a fifth year undergraduate student at Bishop’s University, pursuing an honours in Political Studies and a major in International Relations. Matthew was a part of the 2020 Model United Nations Delegation and represented Bishop’s University at the Political Science Games for the first through third years of his studies. Matthew runs the Bishop’s University Debate society, while also being the director of human resources at Bishop’s university’s entrepreneurship club; Enactus. In the fourth year of his studies, Matthew was hired to be a coordinator for the fourth edition of the Quebec Undergraduate Security Conference under the supervision…
Emerging Scholar
Lou Raisonnier holds a master's degree in international security from the School of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris and a bachelor's degree in political science and Islamic studies from McGill University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in political science (comparative politics and political theory) at the University of Ottawa's École d'Études Politiques, under the supervision of Frédéric Vairel. Her doctoral thesis focuses on how French institutions (both security and administrative) deal with the return of women involved in the Islamic State organization in the Iraqi-Syrian zone. Having lived in New Zealand, France and Canada, Lou is fluent in…
Practitioner
Camille Raymond is a Policy Officer in the Assistant Deputy Minister (Policy) organization of the Department of National Defence. She holds a master's degree in Political Science from the University of Quebec in Montreal, under the supervision of Justin Massie. Her master's research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Department of National Defence's MINDS program. Her thesis focused on the adaptation of Canadian defence and foreign policy to power transitions. Her research interests include Canadian foreign and defence policy, NORAD modernization, Canada-US relations, and Canadian military contributions. She has also worked…
Fellow researcher
Yf Reykers is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. He is also Co-Editor of the journal Contemporary Security Policy. Yf obtained his PhD from KU Leuven. He was a visiting scholar at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at European University Institute, at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, and at Aarhus University. Yf studies issues relating to European security and defence. For the moment, he focuses in particular on the role of ad hoc coalitions in international security and different forms of European defence cooperation.…
Researcher
Dr. Gaëlle Rivard Piché is a strategic analyst with Defence Research and Development Canada where she works closely with the Canadian Armed Forces, providing direct decision-making support through evidence-based research on a wide range of topics. She is currently a fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Carleton University), where she completed her Ph.D. in International Affairs in 2017. She is also a guest lecturer at the Canadian Forces College and works as a consultant for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on security sector reform and peace operations. During her doctoral studies, Dr. Rivard Piché was a Fulbright…
Practitioner
Rhita Ronda is a Policy Officer in the Assistant Deputy Minister's Branch of the Department of National Defence. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Public Affairs and International Relations from Laval University and a Master's degree in International Studies with a concentration in cultures, conflicts and peace from the University of Montreal. She completed her internship under the supervision of Professor Marie-Joëlle Zahar. Before starting her master’s degree, she completed an intership at the Bureau of the United Nations and International Organizations of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She also worked as a research assistant at Queen's University and…
Emerging Scholar
Emmanuelle Rousseau is a PhD student in Political Science at the Université de Montréal. She is also a Junior Fellow of the Defence and Security Foresight Group at the University of Waterloo. Her doctoral project, financed by the Quebec Research Fund – Society and Culture, deals with diplomatic contestation in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the East-West dynamics in cooperative security within the OSCE region. She holds a master's degree in International Relations Governance and a Diploma of political studies in conflict management from Science po Toulouse, a BA in Russian Studies from the Université de…
Researcher
Stéphane Roussel is Professor of political science at Ecole nationale d’Administration publique (ENAP). From 2002 to 2012, he was Professor at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) and Canada Research Chair on Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy. His research interests relate to Canadian foreign and defence policy, with particular emphasis on the relations with the United States and European countries. He has also developed an expertise in related fields, such as international relations theory and military history. His work has been published in several journals, including American Review of Canadian Studies, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, International Journal, Paix et…
Practitioner
Ben Rowswell has been President and Research Director of the Canadian International Council since November 2018.Prior to the CIC, Ben served as Canada’s Ambassador to Venezuela from 2014 to 2017. This capped a 25 year career as a professional diplomat including assignments in Canada’s embassies to Egypt, to the United States, and in Canada’s Permanent Mission to the UN. He served Canada’s first diplomatic envoy to Baghdad, Iraq, after the fall of Saddam Hussein from 2003 to 2005, as Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan and as head of the NATO Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar between 2008 and 2010.As a practitioner…
