Claude Moniquet (born 3 March 1958 in Brussels, Belgium) is a retired French journalist (working mainly with L'Express and Quotidien de Paris) and a former intelligence agent at the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), operating extensively in eastern Europe and the Balkans.
He is co-founder and CEO of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC).
[1] Born to a Belgian father and a French mother, he was a far-left militant until the age of 19.
He began his career as a journalist specialising in eastern Europe, especially Poland.
In 2019, he was the head candidate of the newly formed right-wing Destexhe List for the Brussels regional elections, which got no seat.