Erwan Lagadec is a SAIS Foreign Policy Institute Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations. His work focuses on Transatlantic management of catastrophic crises, and U.S.-EU-NATO relations. A French National, Dr. Lagadec holds a D.Phil. (PhD) in medieval intellectual history from the University of Oxford (Trinity College, 2004). He has worked as a consultant for the French Foreign Ministry Policy Planning Staff (2003, 2005), the Delegation for Strategic Affairs at the French Ministry of Defense (2005), and at the U.S. mission to the EU (2006). As a Navy Reserve Officer specialized in strategic studies, he was also an adviser to the military staff at the French Permanent Representation to the EU (2007) and with the military attache at the French Embassy in the U.S. (2008). In 2004-2005 he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a Visiting Scholar at SAIS, examining French-U.S. relations during the 2003 Iraq Crisis. In 2005-2006 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. In 2006-2007 he was a Visiting Fellow at CTR, where he launched the Center's ongoing Transatlantic, cross-sector project on "Unconventional Crises, Unconventional Responses: Reforming Leadership in the Age of Catastrophic Crises and Hypercomplexity." In addition to his current work at SAIS, he was a research affiliate at MIT's Security Studies Program in 2007-2008; in 2008-2009 he also teaches French Civilization at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and is an affiliate at Harvard University's Center for European Studies. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He speaks French and English, and reads Russian, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek and some Arabic. | 
