Frédérick Douzet
Director of GEODE, University Professor and member of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace
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 is senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2022 a member of the French Defense Ethics Committee since its creation in January 2020. In January 2023, she was awarded the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor.
In 2017, she was part of the drafting committee for the French Strategic Review of Defense and National Security. From 2013 to 2018, she held 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 (cyberstability.org). In 2021, she was appointed member of the Bronner Commission on Disinformation by President Emmanuel Macron.
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 a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2006 to 2011 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.
Her current research deals with the geopolitics of cyberspace, as cyberspace has become the object of power rivalries between stakeholders, a scene of confrontation, and a highly powerful tool in geopolitical conflicts. Frederick Douzet work aims at replacing cyber conflicts within their geopolitical context and training young researchers to take into account the cyber dimension of the geopolitical conflicts and regions they study..
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.
