Laurent holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the University Panthéon-Assas Paris II. He has been working in the field of international risk management for twenty years. He started as an officer in the French Navy and then worked in the international security and business intelligence departments of large companies. In 2019, he joined Grenoble Ecole de Management as a teacher-researcher in geopolitics. His work focuses on the issue of corporate security and geopolitical risk management.