Guillaume Lasconjarias is an associate researcher at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) in Paris. He previously worked as a researcher at the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy. His areas of expertise cover counterinsurgency, capacity building and conventional forces, hybrid threats and professional military education. A former researcher at the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’École Militaire (IRSEM, Strategic Research Institute) and deputy head of the Research Office of the Army Doctrine Centre (CDEF), Lasconjarias has both an academic and practitioner's experience. He holds a PhD in History from Sorbonne University, Paris.