Training tomorrow's leaders in geopolitical and strategic analysis
“Geopolitics is an essential strategic skill for future leaders: it is what lets them make sense of tomorrow's stakes and political decisions.”
Decode
Analyze geopolitical tensions, sovereignty issues, and strategic innovations
Federate
Bring students together around the armed forces community and the leading players in defense
Shine
Carry ESSEC's colors within the defense ecosystem
Conferences and roundtables
Roundtables and conferences with senior military officials, diplomats and defense industry executives.
Brown Bag Lunches
A weekly informal format on defense topics: European defense, the defense industrial and technological base, deterrence and overseas operations.
Field visits
Regiments, air bases and strategic sites of the defense industrial and technological base.
Our latest events
Conferences, roundtables, Brown Bag Lunches and field visits, from the Cergy campus to the École Militaire.
EGDA x UN'ESSEC round table: the future of multilateralism
ESSEC Cergy campus
Round table co-organised with UN'ESSEC on the question "Can multilateral organisations still shape the global balance of power?", in partnership with the ESSEC Institute for Geopolitics & Business and AFNU (French Association for the United Nations). The evening built on a debrief of the September 2026 UN General Assembly.
View event
Conference with Thierry Lepercq: the United States and the world order
Maison des ESSEC
A conference organized by EGDA with Thierry Lepercq, on the role of the United States in the world order.
View eventVisit to KNDS France at Satory
KNDS France headquarters, Satory
Visit to KNDS France's headquarters at Satory: a presentation of the company and its activities, a look at the equipment on display and talks by several professionals about their careers.
View event