Dr Clotilde Bômont is a Senior Policy Analyst in charge of the Cyber and Digital technologies portfolio at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). In this capacity, she is also supporting the implementation of both the EU Cyber Direct - EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative and the ‘Advancing the Cyber Programme of Action Initiative’ (PoA), another EU-funded projects led by the EUISS.
Her research mainly focuses on EU’s Digital policies and initiatives and on emerging and disruptive technologies. Prior to joining the EUISS, Clotilde Bômont was a research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Studies in Paris (IRSEM), a public research agency of the French Ministry of the Armed forces, and was affiliated with the academic research and training centre GEODE at Paris 8 University. She was also a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York and an associate research fellow at the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan military schools research centre, and she cooperated with the French Ministry of the Armed forces on the organisation’s digital transformation and industrial policy. Dr Bômont holds a PhD in Political Geography with a focus on cloud computing and military information and communication systems from Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She obtained a M.A. in Geopolitics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
