Pascal Vennesson is Senior Fellow and Head of Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Professor of Political Science at Paris-Pantheon-Assas University (on leave). He is a recipient of the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award from the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and strategic studies. Before joining RSIS, he held the Chair “Security in Europe”, at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies. He also taught “Strategy and Policy” for ten years at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)-Bologna Center. He is the author, co-author and editor of six books and his refereed articles have been notably published in Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Journal of Global Security Studies, Armed Forces and Society, Review of International Studies, International Studies Perspectives, International Relations, and Revue Française de Science Politique. An award-winning teacher, Professor Vennesson has supervised or co-supervised to completion more than 25 PhD students in international security. He is a member of the editorial boards of Revue Française de Science Politique (French Political Science Review), Armed Forces and Society and the European Journal of International Security. Professor Vennesson was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control, at Ohio State University’s Mershon Center and a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He received his MA from the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and his Ph.D. from Sciences-Po Paris.
