Samuel Carcanague is a researcher at IRIS, specializing in the post-Soviet space and energy issues.
Holder of a master's degree in Contemporary History from Paris-IV - La Sorbonne University and a graduate of the IRIS Sup 'degree in Defense, Security and Crisis Management, he has worked in the Directorate of the Union Ministry of Foreign Affairs before joining the IRIS research team in 2014.His research, mainly conducted for public institutions and major French companies, focuses on Russian foreign policy, security and energy issues in Central Asia and the geopolitics of renewable energies.
He is coordinator at the IRIS of the GENERATE project (Geopolitics of renewable energies and prospective analysis of the energy transition), conducted in partnership with the French Institute of Petroleum and New Energies (IFPEN) and funded by the National Agency for Research (ANR).