Gomart is deputy director for strategic development and director of the Russia/NIS Centre at IFRI. His academic and professional background has been closely related to the post-Soviet space. As Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute for International Relations (University-MGIMO - Moscow), Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (European Union - Paris) and Marie Curie Fellow at Department of War Studies (King's College - London), he has acquired a diversified international experience. He is currently editing his next book with A. Dellecker: Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy (2011). He holds a Ph.D in History at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and an EMBA at HEC.