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	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne
Director, Senior Executive Seminar
College of International and Security Studies

Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne is Director of the Senior Executive Seminar in the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. His expertise is in political-military issues and Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and African affairs.

A graduate of the French Military Academy of Saint-Cyr (class of 1965), LtGen Raffenne was born in Lepuix-Gy, France.

As a Marine, infantryman and parachute instructor, he has spent most of his operational career, from second lieutenant to colonel, in professional parachute units, either with 11th Parachute Division Units in France or overseas, particularly in Africa (Chad and Djibouti), Lebanon and the Indian Ocean (the Comoros Islands and the Island of Reunion.) He commanded the 2nd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment in Reunion from 1988 to 1990.

LtGen Raffenne graduated from the Army Staff College, Ecole Supérieure de Guerre, before serving on the teaching staff of the Joint Staff College, Collège Interarmées de Défense. He also served as a liaison officer and instructor at the Combined Arms Command in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S.A. While in the U.S., he attended a summer session in international affairs at Harvard University. He also attended the Centre for Higher Military Studies and the Institute for Higher National Defense Studies in Paris.

After his promotion to the rank of brigadier general in August 1994, he served as Military Attaché at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. In July 1996, he was assigned to the former Yugoslavia, first with the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps and then as Chief J5, Plans and Policy, of the Stabilisation Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In August 1997 he was assigned to the French Armed Forces Staff as assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff, Director for International Affairs before becoming himself DCOS, Director for International Affairs in July 1998. He was promoted to major general on Jan. 1, 1999.

On March 1, 2000, he was assigned to Brussels as the first French military representative to the European Union’s Military Committee and promoted to lieutenant general.

On March 1, 2001, he returned to Paris as Special Assistant to the French Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces.

Between October and December 2001, he was assigned to Tampa, Florida as Chief of the French Military Mission to Central Command, Operation Enduring Freedom. From February 2002 to March 2005, he was commander of the NATO Defense College in Rome.

Since April 2005, he has been a professor and Senior Executive Seminar director at the Marshall Center.

LtGen Raffenne’s decorations and medals include the Commandeur de la Légion d’honneur, Commandeur de l’Ordre national du Mérite, Croix de la Valeur Militaire with four citations, Legion of Merit (Officer), U.S. Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Overseas Service Medal, NATO Medal, and Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.

Last updated: July 16, 2008