About the Speaker

Dr Frédéric Grare is a Non-resident Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR, and Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

His research focuses on Indo-Pacific dynamics, the search for security architecture, and South Asia Security issues. Grare served as an Advisor at the Center for Analysis, forecasting and strategy of the French ministry of foreign affairs, and as head of the Asia bureau at the Directorate for Strategic Affairs in the French Ministry of Defense. Prior to joining the French Ministry of External Affairs, he was Director of the South Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. Grare also served at the French embassy in Pakistan and as director of the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities in New Delhi.

His most recent books include The Indian Ocean as a New Political and Security Region, co-written with Jean-Loup Samaan, (Palgrave, January 2022), and India turns East: International Engagement and US-China Rivalry (Hurst Publisher, November 2017) written with the support of the Smith Richardson Foundation.