Thomas Gomart (born 13 March 1973)[1] is a French historian of international relations (History – Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) and the director of IFRI (Institut français des relations internationales) since 2015.

[2] He was previously vice-president for strategic development at IFRI, and director of the Russia/NIS Center and of the trilingual electronic collection Russie.NEI.Visions in English.

A Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute for International Relations (University-MGIMO – Moscow), visiting fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (Paris) and Marie Curie Fellow at Department of War Studies (King’s College – London), Gomart writes on Russia and the post-Soviet area, especially the Russia-EU-USA relations and Russian civil-military relations.

Gomart is teaching at the French Military School of Saint-Cyr (use of military power in international relations and geopolitics of energy).

He regularly contributes articles to the French and the international media.