François Chimits Head of Europe Program Resident FellowFollow Europe and InternationalSince May 2025, François Chimits has been Head of Europe Program at the Institut Montaigne. He specializes in economic security issues, EU trade policy and the EU-US-China triangle.After a master's degree in development economics from Paris Dauphine, François began his career at the Direction Générale du Trésor (Ministry of Economy and Finance), first in Singapore, then for two years in Beijing, and finally in Paris, working on French and EU trade policy issues. He then returned to Chinese issues, spending four years with the MERICS economic team, first in Berlin and then helping to open the German center's Brussels office.In the meantime, he was a research associate at CEPII, first on globalization and sustainable development issues, then on interactions between the international economy and China. He was also in charge of a course on the Chinese economy at Sciences Po Paris from 2019 to 2024.PublicationsExclusive InsightsJune 2026Implementing the Draghi Report: The Moment of TruthTwo years after the publication of the Draghi Report on European competitiveness, around 30% of its 567 recommendations have been implemented. While the European Union is broadly on schedule, most of the proposed reforms still remain to be carried out. Faced with persistent economic, technological, and energy-related challenges, Europe must accelerate and deepen its transformation efforts to safeguard its competitiveness, sovereignty, and prosperity in an increasingly competitive global environment.ReportDecember 2025Dunkirk: a Testing Ground for European Industrial RenewalDunkirk embodies France's industrial revival: a strategic region where decarbonisation, reindustrialisation and public-private investment come together. This report by the Institut Montaigne identifies the conditions that have enabled this momentum and proposes 10 concrete recommendations to sustainably strengthen national and European industrial ambition.March 2023China Trends #15 - China’s Diplomacy: A Triumph of Cost-Benefit AnalysisChina Trends #15 by Institut Montaigne.01/23/2026The EU Economic Security Doctrine: Just Hot Air? François Chimits 01/13/2026Toward European Digital Sovereignty: the Implementation Test François Chimits Jeanne Lebaudy Luna Vauchelle 08/01/2025 EU-US Agreement: an Armistice that is Timely if Given the Means François Chimits