Luc Pagès

Vice Admiral Luc Pagès became an associate fellow at Chatham House in January 2022. Before that, from 2018 to 2021, he was Defence Attaché to the French Embassy in the United Kingdom.

Previously, he held various positions of responsibility in international defence relations, including Head of the Office for French Bilateral Military Relations dealing with about 50 Euro-Atlantic countries, Naval Attaché to the French Embassy in the United States, Deputy Head of the Policy Desk at NATO Transformation Command in Norfolk and Coordination Officer for SACT and DSACT.

Commissioned in 1989, he held three commands at sea (Brest, Tahiti, Toulon) and participated in numerous operations in the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.

A graduate of the French Naval Academy, he completed a Master’s degree in national security strategy at National Defense University, Washington, DC.

He works currently as a defence and international relations consultant.