Fabrice Pothier has over 25 years of experience in strategic affairs and international public policy. As CEO, he has led Rasmussen Global to become a prime independent political consultancy in Europe. Mr. Pothier advises, on a pro bono basis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his team on issues related to... Read more
Fabrice Pothier has over 25 years of experience in strategic affairs and international public policy. As CEO, he has led Rasmussen Global to become a prime independent political consultancy in Europe. Mr. Pothier advises, on a pro bono basis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his team on issues related to security guarantees, NATO membership, and international support for Ukraine.
He advises many of Europe’s most innovative defence technology champions and co-founded the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity, bringing together leaders from politics and technology, including Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Michael Chertoff, Joe Biden, and Nick Clegg.
Mr. Pothier served as NATO Director of Policy Planning from 2010–2016 under two successive Secretaries General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Jens Stoltenberg. While at NATO, he developed some of the Alliance’s most consequential initiatives, such as the Readiness Action Plan and Smart Defence, and played an active role in NATO’s operations in Libya and its response to the 2014–15 Ukraine war.
Prior to NATO, Mr. Pothier founded Carnegie Europe, part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which became one of Europe’s leading foreign policy think tanks. He is widely published and frequently quoted in international media and regularly speaks on international affairs and security issues. As a senior defence consulting fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, he writes on European politics, defence innovation and technology, and transatlantic affairs.