Sylvie Matelly

Sylvie Matelly

Former Deputy Director of IRIS

Sylvie Matelly was deputy director of the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS), until september 2023.

Specialised in defence and economics, Sylvie Matelly joined IRIS in 2001. After a masters degree in International Economics (with a minor in Financial markets, energy and raw materials), she pursued a PhD dealing with “Economic determinants of military spending” at the University of Grenoble, France. She also studied in Barcelona and Montpellier. At IRIS, her work focuses on Defence Economics, Arms Industry, Export Control and Corruption issues. She has conducted studies for the French Ministry of Defence and Foreign Affairs, the EU Commission, the Defence Agency and the Parliament, as well as for Strategy and Defence companies.
In 2003, she co-created the Master’s degree in “Geoeconomy and Strategic Intelligence”, which has trained an average of 30 students each year since.

She is also an associate professor and head of the department of Finance, Economics and Law at the Léonard de Vinci Business School (La Défence – Paris).

She published L’Europe peut-elle faire face à la mondialisation? (La Découverte, in collaboration with Bastien Nivet) in 2015, Argent Sale : à qui profite le crime ? (Eyrolles, in collaboration with Carole Gomez) in 2018 and Géopolitique de l’économie (Eyrolles) in 2021.

Publications

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Notes / Ares

8 November 2022

Collective Defence Investment: Europe Must Do More and at a Faster Pace

Jean Belin

Defense and Peace Bordeaux School, University of Bordeaux

Renaud Bellais

University of Grenoble-Alpes

Daniel Fiott

Head, Defence and Statecraft Programme, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, Brussels School of Governance; Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and Non-Resident Fellow, Real Instituto Elcano

Alessandro Marrone

Head of Defence Programme, IAI

Sylvie Matelly

Former Deputy Director of IRIS

Jean-Pierre Maulny

Deputy Director

Federico Santopinto

Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Europe, Strategy and Security Programme

Gaspard Schnitzler

Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Defence and Security Industry Programme

Trevor Taylor

Professorial Research Fellow, RUSI

Dick Zandee

Member of the Scientific Committee of the ARES Group

Notes / Ares

19 April 2022

To face the Russian threat, Europeans need to spend together – not side by side

Felix Arteaga

Senior Analyst, The Elcano Royal Institute

Renaud Bellais

University Grenoble-Alpes

Daniel Fiott

Member of the Scientific Committee, ARES Group

Sylvie Matelly

Former Deputy Director of IRIS

Jean-Pierre Maulny

Deputy Director

Alessandro Marrone

Head of Defence Programme, IAI

Margarita Šešelgytė

Director, The Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University

Edouard Simon

Trevor Taylor

Professorial Research Fellow, RUSI

Dick Zandee

Member of the Scientific Committee, ARES Group

Notes / Ares

30 April 2020

European Defence Should Not Be the Casualty of the ‘Great Lockdown’

Felix Arteaga

Senior Analyst, The Elcano Royal Institute

Daniel Fiott

Security and Defence Editor, EUISS

Keith Hartley

Emeritus Professor of Economics, The University of York

Sylvie Matelly

Former Deputy Director of IRIS

Jean-Pierre Maulny

Deputy Director

Alessandro Marrone

Head of Defence Programme, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

Margarita Šešelgytė

Director at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University

Edouard Simon