HEC UK Geopolitics Club: France and the UK in the Indopacific: cooperation or competition?
The HEC UK Geopolitics Club is delighted to invite you to its next event:
France and the UK in the Indopacific: cooperation or competition?
with Contre-Amiral Hervé Hamelin
Defence Attaché in the UK
Thursday 30th May 2024 at 8:30am
HEC UK House, 43 Parker Street WC2B 5PS
The strategic context in the region (Suez Canal, Strait of Malacca, Persian Gulf, China, India. ...) requires cooperation, but 2 years after AUKUS, can France and her Anglo-Saxon allies see eye to eye? Contre-Amiral Hervé Hamelin will share his views informed by his concrete experience of the relationship between France and the UK.
About Contre-Amiral Hervé Hamelin
 | Contre-Amiral Hervé Hamelin is the Defence Attaché at the French Embassy in London since 2021. Under the Ambassador’s authority, he represents the Ministère de la Défense and its different departments in the United Kingdom. His role is to promote France’s defence policy, understand and contribute to a better understanding of the United Kingdom’s defence policy, and develop bilateral relations in the field of military cooperation between both countries. Before joining the French Embassy in London, he has been a strategy and security advisor for the French MoD and for political authorities at the Paris-based Directorate for International Relations and Strategy. A Navy fighter pilot since 1993, CA Hamelin has commanded at air and sea, was deployed in assistance operations (Hurricane Mitch in Central America) and war engagements including over Kosovo, Afghanistan and Libya. Hervé Hamelin’s brilliant academic career started with Ecole Navale, which he complemented with Collège Interarmées de Défense, UK and US exchange programs. He has honed a strong and eclectic international exposure through the US Defense Language Institute (USA), Tsinghua University (China) and the Royal College of Defense Studies (UK). He graduated from HEC Paris with an Executive MBA in 2006. |
EVENT SUMMARY
- Date: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Time: 8:30 to 10:00am
- Address: HEC UK House 43 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PS Map here
- Format: Panel discussion & breakfast
- Tickets: Infinity Pass and fee-paying members £7 / Alumni £12 / External £18
