Overview

The Leadership Team

Christian Harbulot

An international expert in economic intelligence, Christian Harbulot has been initiating research on economic confrontation issues and power strategies since the mid-1980s.
Since the early 2000s, he has focused his work on cognitive warfare and information warfare through content. In January 2022, he founded CR 451, the EGE research center, dedicated to this approach.

Career in Economic Intelligence
In 1990, while serving as Director of External Relations for ADITECH (later ADIT, a national strategic intelligence company), he published “Offensive Techniques and Economic Warfare.” His work caught the attention of Edith Cresson, then Prime Minister, leading to his appointment as personal advisor to Henri Martre at the Commissariat Général au Plan to produce the report that would give birth to economic intelligence in France.
In 1993, he was recruited by the Défense Conseil International Group as Operations Director for its economic intelligence department, Intelco. There, he conducted activities in conceptualization, consulting, and raising awareness of EI.
In 1997, he co-founded the École de Guerre Economique (EGE) with General Pichot-Duclos.

Participation in National Interest Initiatives
2023: exercise on influence and informational struggles for the promotion of the War College.
2019-2020: drafting of a scenario on information warfare as part of the organization of an inter-service OSINT exercise entrusted to the EGE by the DRM.
2010-2011: member of the scientific council of the High Council for Strategic Training and Research.
2007-2010: organization of seminars for the CSRM on the issue of EI and information warfare (recruited for the occasion under title 9 with the rank of LcL).
2006-2008: participation in a working group at the DRM on information warfare, under the direction of General Georgelin, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, and General Masson, Director of the DRM.
2005: sole private member of the “information manipulation” working group convened by Alain Juillet at the SGDN. Granted special France defense confidential clearance for the occasion.
1995: participation as director of the Intelco department at DCI, in a working committee organized by Prefect Pautrat at the SGDN on informational maneuvers related to the resumption of nuclear tests.2010-2011.
1992-1994: personal advisor to Henri Martre, president of the “Economic Intelligence and Corporate Strategy” group at the Commissariat Général du Plan.
1992: member of the Competitiveness Commission of the XIth Plan, chaired by Jean Gandois.
Latest Works
Co-author with Lucie Laurent and Nicolas Moinet, Economic Warfare, Who is the Enemy? Paris, éditions du Nouveau Monde, 2022.
Coordinator of version 3 of the Manual of Economic Intelligence, Paris, PUF, 2019.
The Art of Economic Warfare, Paris, VA éditions, 2018.
American Economic Nationalism, Paris, VA éditions, 2017.
The Manufacturers of Intoxication, The Globalized War of Propaganda, Paris, Lemieux éditeur, March 2016.

Arnaud de Morgny

Arnaud de Morgny is the Deputy Director of the École de Guerre Économique’s applied research center, CR451. His work primarily focuses on information warfare through content and influence strategies.
He teaches information warfare at EGE.
Previously, he served as a parliamentary assistant in the Senate. In this capacity, he contributed to drafting the provisions of the bill proposing the creation of a national Economic Intelligence program, submitted to the Senate on March 25, 2021.
For 20 years, he has been a trainer in French and European public law and policies for elected officials and then public agents. He has also participated in and led audit missions for international organizations and strategy development missions in public procurement law for French companies.
In 2023, he co-organized the exercise on influence and informational struggles for the promotion of the War College.

He coordinates the annual publication of CR451.

He is the president of the Economic Warfare School of Thought (EPGE).