Thierry Tuot is a Councillor of State and has served as President of the Interior Section of the French Council of State since 2023. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and ENA, he has spent most of his career at the Council of State, having previously headed the legal affairs department of Aérospatiale, led the Social Action Fund for Immigrant Workers, and chaired the Energy Regulatory Commission.

Alexandre Lahousse is a graduate of École Polytechnique and currently serves as Deputy Director General of the French Directorate General of Armament. Trained at the École Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), he has spent most of his career at the DGA, where he has played a major role in strengthening France’s defense industrial and technological base.

Thibaud Frossard, a graduate of École Polytechnique, is Executive Vice President of the Capgemini Group and Head of its Aerospace & Defense and Security activities in France. He has held several positions at the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance, including as a ministerial adviser on industrial and innovation policy. He also lectures on industrial policy at Sciences Po.

Anne-Sophie Dhiver is Deputy Head of Department at VIGINUM, the French government service responsible for detecting and characterizing foreign digital interference. A graduate of the École de Guerre, she began her career in strategy consulting at Oliver Wyman before joining TF1 and then Google, where she worked in particular on digital transformation and the fight against disinformation.

Carla-Julie Bastia is a senior civil servant with the City of Paris, where she serves as Head of Resources at the Directorate for Ecological Transition and Climate. A graduate of the Institut national du service public (INSP) in 2023, she works in particular on issues related to public-sector transformation and the ecological transition.

Marc Aussedat is a Vice Admiral of the French Navy. Throughout his naval career, he held several senior leadership positions, including command of the French carrier strike group. Formerly Deputy Director for “Forces” at the French Directorate General of Armament, he notably worked on aligning the capabilities of the French armed forces with their operational requirements.

A graduate of both the École Normale Supérieure and École Polytechnique, Jean-Baptiste Masson is a researcher working at the intersection of physics, statistics, and biology. He serves as a laboratory director at the Pasteur Institute, INRIA, and PR[AI]RIE, where he focuses on AI applications in the life sciences. In 2020, he founded Avatar Medical, a company that develops 3D and virtual reality medical visualization tools to assist surgeons.

Guillaume Courault is General Delegate of the French Family Office Association. Specializing in wealth management, he previously oversaw corporate wealth management as well as all of Léon Cligman’s financial, administrative, and philanthropic assets. Committed to the nonprofit sector, Guillaume Courault is also the founder of the “France Sclérose en Plaques” foundation.

Nassima Auvray is Defense & Security Director at Orange Business. A Chief Armament Engineer and cybersecurity expert, she leads critical technology infrastructures, following a ten-year career working on electronic warfare within the French Directorate General of Armament.