Michel Duclos, Special Advisor and Resident Senior Fellow, Geopolitics and Diplomacy at Institut Montaigne, is a diplomat. Head of the disarmament department at the Quai d’Orsay from 1994 to 1998, Ambassador at the Political and Security Committee in the EU, from 2000 to 2002, Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations from 2002 to 2006, he was Ambassador of France to Syria from 2006 to 2009. He is the author of several books, the last one being Guerre en Ukraine et nouvel ordre du monde (2023), co-edited by Institut Montaigne and Editions de l'Observatoire.