François Carrel-Billiard

Managing Director | carrel@ipinst.org

As the Managing Director of IPI, François Carrel-Billiard works with the President and the Directors in overseeing the direction and management of the institute. He is, in particular, responsible for developing new initiatives, ensuring coordination between the different departments and programs, and coordinating development and fundraising activities.

François also conducts research and collaborates as a Senior Fellow to IPI’s flagship program, Coping with Crisis, Conflict, and Change, for which he leads a project on weapons of mass destruction.

He joined IPI in 2007 as a Visiting Senior Fellow. He then served as the Deputy Director of External Relations and designed new event series, including the Forum on World Affairs and Beyond the Headlines series.

\Prior to joining IPI, François served in Paris as an adviser on strategic issues to the French Foreign Minister (2005-2007), and as a Deputy Director for Strategic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2002-2005), where he was responsible for defense and security issues.

Previously, François was posted in Moscow, New York and Brussels. In New York, he was a counselor at the Permanent Mission of France to the UN (1996-2000), where he handled Security Council issues, with a focus on Africa and Afghanistan.

François graduated in 1990 from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris. He also holds a law degree from the Université Paris II and an MA from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.