Sciences Po Aix : creation of the first chair in academic intelligence in France

In September 2020, the university certificate will be opened before the start of the master’s degree and the chair of academic studies scheduled for the academic year 2021. For the first

In September 2020, the university certificate will be opened before the start of the master’s degree and the chair of academic studies scheduled for the academic year 2021.

For the first time in France, in September 2021 Sciences Po Aix will launch a pulpit, an academic exclusively dedicated to the study of intelligence, to meet “strong institutional demand”.

From September 2020, the university certificate will be opened, which will receive 30 people, 15 students and 15 specialists in training, before the start of the master’s degree and the chair-academic year until the academic year 2021, indicated the executive officer of the AFP from the Institute of Political Studies ( IEP) in Aix-en-Provence.

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The chair, which consists of a research and education component, will be led by the current military adviser to the government, General Serge Cholley, who will become executive director, and Walter Heather-Ostells, scientific director.

military intelligence, homeland security, diplomatic, economic or financial… “We will work on all types of intelligence and we want to combine exact sciences, such as the treatment of ‘big data’, and social sciences, including international relations,” he specified for AFP Walter Heather-Ostells, historian specializing in defense issues.

“Our students will be able to integrate the intelligence services, but especially large companies because today risks are globalizing everywhere in our society,” continued Mr. Heather-Ostells.

intelligence “experts” as a teacher

For the director of Sciences Po Aix, Rostane Mehdi, the IEP of Aix is ​​”very well positioned in matters of defense because it is part of a socio-economic landscape characterized by defense industry and military units located throughout the region.”

Several intelligence “experts” will teach as members of the military, gendarmes, diplomats or the former director of Tracfin, the organization’s minister in charge of fighting fraud and a member of the Audit Court.

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In France, the entry of information into the academic world dates back to 1995, with the creation of the Defense Scientific Studies Center (ESDC) at the University of Marne-la-Vallée on the initiative of Admiral Pierre Lacoste, former director of the DGSE. The data is also included in the programs of the National School of Administration (ENA) and the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defense (IHEDN).

today there is an ‘institutional demand very high,’ Rostane Mehdi stressed: already in 2018, ‘the former coordinator of the national intelligence service asked all IEPs to think about it.’

Updated date: July 16, 2020, 10:58 p.m

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