The CEDS courses are taught by a team of highly qualified professors, lecturers and experts in diplomacy and strategy, coordinated by Fouad NOHRA, Academic Director
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Ghada AWADA
Former Advisor to the Prime Minister (Lebanon)
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Kamal HAMMAD
University Professor (Lebanese University), Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Tourism
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Amina TAIBOUNI
Expert Economist – Senior Lecturar at HEIP former financial executive at Naftal Sonatrach
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Aissa KARDI
University Professor (Paris VIII), Honorary Director of the Maghreb Europe Laboratory
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Bertrand LANG
Associate Professor at the Université Paris Cité
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Mikhail LEBEDREV
Former Russian diplomat
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Delphine LECOURTE
Coordinator at Amnesty International
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Hanifa MEZOUI
Honorary Director of the NGO Department at the United Nations Economic and Social Council
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Jean-Jacques PATRY
Project manager at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS)
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Thierry RAMBAUD
University Professor (Université Paris Cité)
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Michael STRAUSS
Journalist, UN Human Rights Consultant, Expert on international organizations
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Bassam TAYARA
Lecturer at INALCO
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Olivier TRAMOND
General, Former Director of the Center for Force Employment Doctrine
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Marc
WATTIN-AUGOURD
General of Gendarmerie (2S), Founder of the International Cybersecurity Forum
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Bernard ZAHRA
Former Director of the Regional Institute of Administration, Former Director of the Directorate of Social Cohesion
- Ali ABDELGADIR: Academic Advisor of Embassy
- Souha AKIKI: Director of Paris Graduate School, Former Director of the Paris Campus of Schiller International University
- Jean-David AVENEL: University Professor, Director of the Administration and International Exchanges Department, Université Paris Est Créteil
- Isabelle BALOT: Expert for the UNDP and the European Commission
- Mokhtar BEN BARKA: University Professor, Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France
- Arnaud BENEDETTI: Associate Professor Sorbonne University
- Eugène BERG: Ambassador of the French Republic
- François BERNARD: Consultant expert in the promotion of Foreign Direct Investments, former member of the Board of Directors of Invest in Kazakhstan (under the authority of the Kazakh Prime Minister)
- Mustapha CHERIF: Professor at Algiers University, former Minister, former Chairman of the Longlife Education University of Algiers
- Pierre BERTHELOT: Program Director and teacher at the Catholic University
- Philippe BOULANGER: Professor of Universities, Paris Sorbonne University
- Serge BESANGER: Expert at the IMF and the WTO
- Carlos CARRASCO: Ambassador and former Minister of the Republic of Bolivia
- Raymond CARTER: Colonel, former intervention officer at the Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, former director of the International Police Task Force
- Pascal CHAIGNEAU: Professor Emeritus of Universities, Université Paris Cité, Director of the Geopolitics Center of HEC
- Nourdine CHERKAOUI:
Senior Partner, HAVAS Paris - Robin DEGRON: Conseiller référendaire à la Cour des Comptes, Associate Professor at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne
- Amir DHIA: Director General of University of Business and Technology, Jeddah
- Fatoumata DIALLO: Consultant and advisor on public security reform
- Daniel DORMOY: Professor emeritus of Universities, University of Paris Sud
- Alena DOUHAN: Professor of International Law, Belarus State University, Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures and Human Rights at the UN
- Derek EL ZEIN: Senior Lecturer at the Université Paris Cité
- Hassan FODHA: Ambassador, Honorary Director of the United Nations Europe Office
- Gabriel GALICE: President of the International Peace Research Institute in Geneva
- Thierry GARCIN: Former Program Director at Radio France
- Bénédicte GOLDSTEIN: Secretary of Foreign Affairs Deputy Spokesperson in charge of Asia and strategic, security and defense affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Andreï GRATCHEV: Former spokesman of president Gorbatchev
- Zahra ID AHMED: Lecturer at the University of Rennes
- Edmond JOUVE: Professor emeritus at the Université Paris Cité
- Fereydoun KHAVAND: Honorary lecturer at the Université Paris Cité
- Serge LARROQUE: Colonel
- Jean-Pierre MACHELON: Professor Emeritus, Université Paris Cité, Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Law
- Robert MANSOUR: General in the Lebanese Army
- Karine M’BENGUE: Expert at the African Development Bank
- Meriem MEHADJI: Teacher at the École des Hautes Études Internationales et Politiques, Expert in cultural policies
- Christian MESTRE: University Professor, University of Strasbourg, Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Law
- Fouad NOHRA: Senior Lecturer HDR at Université Paris Cité
- Régis PASSERIEUX: Civil administrator at the Centre des Hautes Études du Ministère de l’Intérieur (CHEMI)
- Neda RAHIMABADI: Former expert to the World Health Organization
- Michel RAIMBAUD: Ambassador of France
- Eduardo RIHAN-CYPEL: Former Member of Parliament
- Jacques RAO: Advisor to the French Delegation to UNESCO
- Amina TAIBOUNI: Former financial executive at NAFTAL (SONATRACH), teacher at HEIP, lecturer at the University of Paris Cité and at the University of Paris Nanterre
- Philippe TAUZIN: Consultant in the field of international project financing
- Dionisio URTEAGA TODO:
Colonel, NATO Liaison Officer - Michel VAKALOULIS: Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Paris VIII
- Thierry VAUTRIN: Senior Civil Servant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, former Advisor and Cabinet Director for the Secretary General