Cyrille Bret

Cyrille Bret has been a research fellow at the Jacques Delors Institute on issues relating to Russia and Eastern Europe since January 2021. A senior French civil servant, he is a specialist in security and defense issues, particularly terrorism, and has taught at Sciences Po, the École nationale de la magistrature, the École polytechnique, and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as abroad (Moscow, New York). He is the author of Ten Attacks That Changed the World and What Is Terrorism?

Together with Florent Parmentier, he founded the website EurAsia Prospective and publishes regularly in Commentaire, Le Monde, Libération, Les Échos, as well as in the international press (New Eastern Europe, L’Orient-Le Jour). He also contributes to the Institut Montaigne as an associate expert.

In the private sector, he worked at Groupe Naval (Greece) and was vice president of the France-Greece Chamber of Commerce. Since September 2025, he has been inspector general at the General Inspectorate of Administration, responsible for budget monitoring.

He holds a master’s degree in Russian, Central European and Eurasian Studies (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University), a master’s degree in economics (Sciences Po), and is a former student of ENA and ENS, an agrégé in philosophy and an auditor at IHEDN. He is fluent in French and English, with a working knowledge of Russian and Greek.