International consultant, journalist and authorNetwork expert
Régis Genté
An international consultant, Régis Genté works on governing circles, geopolitics, armed conflict and energy.
- International
- French
How they work
He has studied them for twenty-five years, first as a journalist and then as a consultant, in the former Soviet space and later in other regions of the world.
Based in Tbilisi, Georgia, since 2002, he has covered the major events of the former USSR for RFI, France 24, Le Figaro, France Inter, the Bulletin de l'industrie pétrolière (now Enerpresse) and Paris Match. He reported on the colour revolutions in Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004 and Kyrgyzstan in 2005, on the wars launched by Russia in Georgia in 2008 and in Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, on the pogroms in southern Kyrgyzstan in 2010 and on the second Nagorno-Karabakh war in the autumn of 2020.
He is particularly interested in internal political dynamics and in how the ruling elites of many countries work. He has carried out assignments on Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, the United States and Saudi Arabia, and works with several think tanks, including ECFR, IFRI and the Schuman Foundation.
He is the author of five books, including Volodymyr Zelensky, dans la tête d'un héros (Robert Laffont, 2022) and Notre homme à Washington, Trump dans la main des Russes (Grasset, 2024). He comments regularly on international affairs on French television, notably in C dans l'air on France 5, and on LCI, BFMTV, France Info and Arte.
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