Pascal Lorot
Pascal Lorot (born 30 April 1960 at Clichy) is a French economist and geopolitician. Biography. He earned an economics PhD from the (1987). He has been the president of Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics since 2003, and has also been a member of the since November, 2003. Lorot's past activities include: director of economic studies for the French oil company Total (1995-2002), many ministerial cabinet positions, a counselor for the president of the (BERD), and a researcher at the (IFRI). He also was the president of the economical commission of the Club de l'horloge . Lorot is the founder and director of the academic journal "", and director of six other journals focused on geopolitical issues including: Contribution to international relations. Along with American economist and consultant Edward Luttwak, Lorot helped develop a branch of international relations study known as geoeconomics (sometimes spelled geo-economics). According to Lorot: "Geoeconomics analyzes "economic strategies"--notably commercial--, decided upon by states in a political setting aiming to "protect their own economies" or certain well-identified sectors of it, to help their national enterprises acquire technology or to "capture certain segments of the world market" relative to production or commercialization of  a product. The possession or control of such a share confers to the entity–-state or national enterprise–-"an element of power" and international influence and helps to reinforce its economic and social potential." (Translated from French, italics are contributor's own)