Francis Ghilès
 Francis Ghilès     (journalist, propagandist, deep state operative, “terror expert”) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | November 1944 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Grenoble, St Antony's College (Oxford), University of Keele | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Institute for Statecraft, Institute for Statecraft/Tor team, Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Leaders, Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interests | • Algeria • Tunisia • Middle East • energy • War on terror | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trilingual journalist who has been published since the 1990s on topics including "terrorism". He wrote in 2016 that "we are nowhere close to the end of the War on Terror". A member of the Institute for Statecraft.
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Francis Christopher Ghilès is a member of the Institute for Statecraft. He is a member of the IfS "TOR Team" with a reported 25 years of experience. His job title is listed as "Forensic research" and his other roles as "Other role Russia energy and infowar link between Europe and MENA".[1]
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Career
In 1967 Ghilès was a Research Assistant to Pierre Mendès (Mayor of Grenoble).
His Linkedin page states "Trilingual political scientist who through eighteen years at the Financial Times reporting on international capital markers and North Africa built up extensive experience and contacts throughout the Western Mediterranean, the UK, the USA, Japan and Europe, especially France and Spain. Analyses emerging security, political and denergy trands and connects themm to European, US and North African policy priorities".
Publications
Ghilès has written for a range of commercially-controlled media outlies such as the Financial Times (for 18 years),[2] Le Monde, Berfrois,[3] The New York Times and El Pais.
"Terrorism"
Ghilès has been published in a variety of commercially-controlled media about "terrorism" for over 25 years,[4] especially in France.[5][6][7]
“Fifteen years after 9/11 we are nowhere close to the end of the War on Terror... ISIS is a long-term threat to the region and the outside world.”
Francis Ghilès (26/06/2016) [8]
Brexit
Ghilès wrote with fellow IfS member Alan Riley on Brexit in a piece 2016 for the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs that "Europe is at an Inflexion Point of Danger", in an articled that concluded that "Perhaps, however, the last gift Britain can provide the Union is of Brexit, as a shock sufficient to reform itself and save a unique form of international co-operation that for most of the last five decades served Europe and Europeans so well."[9]
Central banking
A December 2018 piece for Middle East Eye was entitled A strong central bank can save Tunisia's economic and democratic model.[10]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Russia’s Strategy on NATO'S Eastern and Southern Flanks | 27 January 2017 09:30:00 | 27 January 2017 16:30:00 | Barcelona Centre for International Affairs | A CIDOB/The Institute for Statecraft/NATO meeting |
References
- ↑ https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Institute_for_Statecraft/Tor_team
- ↑ http://education.mei.edu/profile/francis-ghil-s
- ↑ https://www.berfrois.com/2013/06/francis-ghiles-democratic-imperialism-is-bound-to-fail/
- ↑ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/francis-ghiles-ghiles/page/5/
- ↑ https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/frances-permanent-state-of-emergency/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/22/france-identity-prison-employment-french-society-muslims
- ↑ https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/399206
- ↑ https://thearabweekly.com/why-war-terrorism-has-failed The Arab Weekly
- ↑ https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/notes_internacionals/n1_159/brexit_causes_and_consequences
- ↑ https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/strong-central-bank-can-save-tunisias-economic-and-democratic-model
