Chantal Lavallée (Royal Military College Saint-Jean)

Chantal Lavallée is Assistant Professor of International Studies and Deputy Director of the Centre sur la gouvernance sécuritaire et de Crise (CRITIC) at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean. She holds a PhD in political science from UQAM. She was the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship from the European Union to carry out the research project “The European Commission in the Drone Community: A New Cooperation Area in the Making” at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, 2017-2019). She also carried out postdoctoral research at the European University Institute (EUI, 2010-2012) in Florence with the support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture, and at the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’École Militaire in Paris thanks to a grant from the French Ministry of Defense (2015-2016). She is an associate researcher at the Centre Jean Monnet in Montreal, at GRIP (Brussels) and at the think tank OSINTPOL (Paris). Her research and publications focus on the European Commission’s contribution to the security and defense and emerging technologies sectors. The bookEmerging Security Technologies and EU Governance, which she co-edited with Raluca Csernatoni and Antonio Calcara, will shortly be published in the Routledge Studies in Conflict, Technology and Security Series.