Frédérick Douzet

DIRECTOR, GEOPOLITICS OF THE DATASPHERE CENTER (GEODE)

Frédérick Douzet  is Professor of Geopolitics at the University of Paris 8, director of the French Institute of Geopolitics research team (IFG Lab) and director of the Center Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE). She has been appointed member of the Bronner Commission on Disinformation by President Emmanuel Macron in September 2021 and member of the French Defense Ethics Committee by the Minister of Defense Florence Parly in January 2020.

In 2017, she was part of the drafting committee for the French Strategic Review of Defense and National Security. From 2013 to 2018, she was the director of the Castex Chair of Cyberstrategy at the Institute of Higher National Defense Studies (IHEDN) and from 2017 to 2020, she was a Commissioner of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.

She studied political science at the Institute of Political Studies of Grenoble and Oxford Brookes University. She earned a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley in 1993 then joined the graduate school of geopolitics at the University of Paris 8 for her PhD.

Frédérick Douzet was nominated junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2006 and has received several awards for her research : International Forum on Cybersecurity (FIC) Book Prize for strategic thinking (2015); France-Berkeley Fund Award for Outstanding Young Scholar (2014); Alphonse Milne Edwards book prize from the Society of Geography (2008); Ernest Lemonon book prize from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (2008) ; Best paper award from the Urban Affairs Association (2009). She has also received scholarships from the Fulbright Program and the Georges Lurcy Foundation. In 2015, she received the title of “Chevalier de l’ordre national du Mérite” in recognition for public service.