Dr. Jean-François Delpech, Chairman of the Board. Dr. Delpech graduated from the École Polytechnique (Paris), has a M.Sc in Electrical Engineering (Stanford University), and a Ph.D in Physics (Université de Paris). Jean-François Delpech is Directeur de recherche honoraire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and has worked extensively on issues at the interface of technology and security policy. He has served as chairman of the working group and senior advisory board of the project on coalition military operations, as well as of other U.S.-CREST multinational working group projects.

Dominique Orsini, Senior Research Associate. Col. (Ret.) Orsini is a graduate from the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr and from the Ecole de Guerre (Paris), and received an advanced degree in Computer Sciences and Operations Research (Université de Paris VI). Dominique Orsini served over 25 years in the French Army as an air defense officer. His experience in transatlantic security and defense issues ranges from operational planning activities in a NATO context as a staff officer, to political and military exchanges as an attaché in Washington, DC. He also took part in two international cooperative development programs for future missile and communications systems. His areas of interest include transatlantic defense transformation as well as multinational and interagency concept development and experimentation.

Anne Kovacs, Research Associate and Project Manager. Anne Kovacs obtained a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University in 2001, and a Masters degree in Security Studies and Conflict Resolution from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 2003. During her time at Sciences Po she participated in two exchange programs, spending one semester at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2002) and another at the French Military Academy of Saint-Cyr (2003). Since joining U.S.-CREST in 2004, Anne Kovacs has written extensively about U.S, French and British interagency coordination and recently co-authored a book on French interagency management of post-conflict environments entitled: “La gestion interministérielle des sorties de conflits”. Her other topics of research include stability operations, conflict prevention, the U.S. national security system, and transatlantic relations. Her participation as an analyst in the Multinational Experiment (MNE) series since 2005 has led her to focus on multinational and interagency concept development and experimentation, particularly regarding strategic and operational level planning and evaluation.

Marc Esteve, Research Associate. Marc Esteve specializes in technology research. He graduated both from ICAF (Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington) and CHEAR (Centre des Hautes Etudes de l’Armement, Paris). During his multiple postings in Washington and Paris, he has accumulated over twenty years experience in research and technology related to international defense and security policy.

Lieutenant General (Ret) Christian Delanghe, Project Director is a graduate of Saint-Cyr (1963-1965), the universities of Rennes and Reims, the US Air Defense Advance Course in Fort Bliss, the Senior Command and War College, the Center for Higher Military Studies and the National Defense Institute in Paris. His command experience includes the 51st Air Defense Regiment in Germany, the 2nd Armored Division in France, the Multinational Division South-East within the NATO Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Bosnia. General Delanghe created and commanded the French “Training and Doctrine Command” in Paris, where he developed the new doctrine of “mastering violence”. His military career also includes several staff assignments, as chief of staff of the III Corps in Lille, senior analyst in Military intelligence agency, and head of the plans, policy and operations division (Emploi) at the Joint Staff in Paris. General Delanghe has been contributing to U.S-CREST activities as project director since he retired from the Army in 2001, and is Vice President of the “Maréchal Leclerc Foundation” in Paris.

Dr. Robert Grant, Senior Research Associate ­ Dr. Grant obtained a Ph.D in Political Science from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. Dr. Grant was Senior Consultant at ERC International from 1985 to 1990 and freelance consultant for the Institute for Defense Analyses before joining U.S.-CREST in July 1990. He is currently in residence in England, close to London. He has worked and written on a broad range of transatlantic security issues, including defense responses to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, U.S.-European armaments cooperation, coalition military operations, NATO adaptation, and French defense policy. Dr. Grant has served as director of different U.S.-CREST multinational projects described above.