Consulting office

Policy Center produces consulting services, research papers and reports for a wide variety of customers (government ministries, international institutions, and businesses with international operations or keen to develop their exports). Policy Center is in a position to form multidisciplinary research teams to cater for their customer requirements. Alongside its commissioned research, Policy Center runs independent research programmes in order to examine objectively the evolution of international relations.

Collaboration with the public sector

Policy Center is available to conduct studies or organize conferences for government bodies in the field of international security and strategic issues (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Interior Ministry, intergovernmental organizations, etc.). Our experts are available to speak at National and/or International Commission hearings on a wide variety of issues such as security, governance, development, diplomacy, international law, etc.

Consulting studies and notes: « Policy Brief »

Consulting studies are carried out at the request of national and international institutions (public or private). They provide help to decision making for public authorities in a wide variety of areas (security issues, governance, development, etc.) and recommendations. This work takes the form of consulting notes (« Policy Brief »). Consulting work can be produced by Policy Center alone or in collaboration with other think tanks.

 

Studies for public institutions are strictly confidential, except those that have been cleared for publication. All consulting studies and notes open for the public can be viewed in our reports entitled:  « Policy Brief ».

International meetings

Policy Center is available for organize high-level meetings and seminar that bring together political and economic leaders and international experts, at the request of public or private institutions. These meetings are designed to foster dialogue among decision-makers and researchers and compare their viewpoints in an informal discussion setting. Meetings and seminars can be organized on request.

Policy Center in an international research networks

Policy Center is part of an international research networks. Thus, Policy Center has forged a wide variety of international collaborative partnerships with other think tanks, which enable it to share data and analysis, undertake joint research and receive invaluable help with understanding foreign political and diplomatic trends.

Consulting services geared to meet the needs of businesses

To help businesses make sense of complex environments and more effectively expand their international footprint, Policy Center offers expertise tailored to businesses’ short, medium, and long-term strategies. This might involve producing analysis notes (« Policy Brief »), organizing forums or seminars gathering high-level economic and political decision-makers, or course programme and vocational training sessions for high-potential employees or company officers in large multinationals. We take great care over the quality of our customized courses and analysis, which are aimed at meeting our customers’ operational requirements.
 
This expertise can also be provided in the form of training or preparation seminars for companies’ senior managers, prior to an expatriate assignment.
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Consulting services designed for the private sector

Policy Center can deliver its analysis in a range of formats:
  • Policy Brief: consulting notes in a concise format available on very short notice to provide insight into a one-off decision.
  • Case Study: in-depth analysis and multi-sector analysis of a geostrategic issue with a view to medium to long-term international development: identification of the key stakeholders and influence networks; economic, social political outlook and risks; the regulatory environment in international law; and diplomatic strategies, which our experts produce operational analysis, and they are powerful decision Tools.
  • Organizing committee meetings, during which one or more Policy Center researchers contribute their expertise on the areas or topics specified. Policy Center systematically adapts to its customer’s specific request and advises it on the factors to take into account in its international decision making.

Bespoke vocational training

Policy Center organize online courses and vocational training sessions aimed at a broad audience (students, representatives, journalists, senior executives of companies or NGOs, diplomats, etc.). These courses are designed to help raise business and government awareness of major international issues. View our course programme and vocational training programmes.

 

Policy Center has also developed specific “customized” training courses run on customer premises. These training programs are put together in partnership with the companies’ human resources departments and international departments, and are designed to provide operational solutions to more or less urgent needs.

 

Examples of possible services:
  • Intervention with members of corporate executive management teams
    Objective: to provide a specific perspective to the company’s operational departments on an international issue with repercussions on the company’s business and development.
  • Pre-expatriation interviews
    Objective: To help executives integrate successfully into a foreign country, by providing them in a limited time with essential economic, political, legal, societal and cultural knowledge of the host country.
  • Lectures in Political Science and International Relations
    Objective: To present a general analysis of global developments, and to get the audience (shareholders, staff meetings or management team meetings) to think about the international context in which the company operates.

Policy Brief

Reports to support public policy and decision-making in various fields (international security, development, international law, diplomacy, defense, geostrategy, governance, society, migration, health, environment, etc.).

 
 

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Our researchers are political scientists specialising in international relations.

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