Chantal Lavallée (Royal Military College Saint-Jean)

Chantal Lavallée is Associate Professor at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean where she has been teaching and conducting research on the European Union since 2019. She is a visiting scholar in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University (2025-2026). She has been a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO, 2021-2024). Chantal is a co-researcher within the RegulAIR research project: The integration of drones in the Norwegian and European Airspaces, led by Bruno Oliveira Martins at PRIO and funded by the Research Council of Norway (2021-2025). At RMC Saint-Jean, Chantal was deputy director (2020-2023) and then director (2023-2025) of the Centre for Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC). Besides the Jean Monnet Centre Montréal, she is also an associate researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School in Paris (IRSEM) and GRIP in Brussels.

Chantal holds a PhD in Political Science from UQAM and received an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, 2017-2019). Before, she had carried out postdoctoral research at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI, 2010-2012) with the support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture, and at IRSEM with a grant from the French Ministry of Defence (2015-2016). Her research focuses on the contribution of the European Commission in the fields of security and defence, as well as emerging technologies, drones in particular.

Mail: Chantal.lavallee@cmrsj-rmcsj.ca