Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer

Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer is Director of the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) at the French Ministry for the Armed Forces, after having served as Policy officer on "Security and Global Affairs" at the Policy Planning Staff (CAPS) of the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Trained in three disciplines— philosophy (Bachelor, Master, Ph.D.), law (Bachelor, LL.M., post-doctorate) and in political science (Ph.D.), he is the author of one hundred articles and almost twenty books, notably with Franck Gouéry, an essay on the Eritrean political regime (Érythrée, un naufrage totalitaire, PUF, 2015) and the author of three photographic books on the Horn of Africa (Les Afars d’Éthiopie, dans l’enfer du Danakil, Non Lieu, 2011 ; Érythrée, entre splendeur et isolement, Non Lieu, 2015 ; Djibouti, de roc, de sable et de sel, Non Lieu, 2017).