Manuel Lafont Rapnouil

Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, a visiting fellow with the CSIS Europe Program, is a French career diplomat. Before joining CSIS, he was a rapporteur for the 2008 French White Paper on Defense and National Security, as well as the 2008 French White Paper on Foreign and European Policy. At that time, he was also completing an assignment at the French Policy Planning Staff (Centre d’Analyse et de Prévision) in the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. While there, he was responsible for multilateral affairs and worked extensively on crisis management issues from a French perspective. He had previously worked on political and collective security issues between 2002 and 2005 as an officer at the Political Affairs Division of the United Nations and International Organizations Department of the Quai d’Orsay.

Lafont Rapnouil is a graduate of Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po) and of the French National School of Administration (ENA). He is the author of "A European View on the Future of Multilateralism,Washington Quarterly (July 2009).