Igor Delanoë is an Associate Research Fellow at IRIS. His expertise covers the geopolitics of Russia, Russian presence and interests in the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and Russian security and defense issues.

He has been deputy director of the Franco-Russian Observatory (CCI France-Russia, Moscow) since 2015, and holds a PhD in history from the University Côte d’Azur (Nice), where he defended his PhD in 2012.

In 2013, he achieved a post-doctorate at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University). He is a research associate at the Center for International and European Studies (Kadir Has University, Istanbul), the Center for Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean (CMMC) and the Center for International and European Law (LADIE) at the University Côte d’Azur. He was a consultant for the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Armed Forces.

He gave lectures at the NATO Defense College (Rome) and gives conference at the École de Guerre (Paris).