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Replay - Paris Naval Conference 2025: Naval Power in support of Maritime Economy

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Replay of the third edition of the Paris Naval Conference (CNP), bringing together high-level speakers from the military, industry and academia, for the aim of addressing the issues of securing the maritime economy for the world's navies.

Conférence navale de Paris, Ifri, 2025
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Playing a crucial role in the global economy, the maritime economy, which includes maritime transport, fishing, the extraction of underwater resources, the leisure and tourism sectors and, increasingly, marine renewable energies, is particularly exposed to the deterioration of international relations when it is expressed primarily in common spaces. As such, it seems inexorably destined to (re)become an essential issue for the navies in charge of securing maritime activities. 

Program
 
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Welcome remarks
Dr. Thomas Gomart, Director of Ifri 
Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French Minister for Ecological Transition, Environment and the Sea
 
10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Roundtable  n°1 – Challenges and perspectives on securing maritime flows for navies

Speakers :
  • Admiral Nicolas Vaujour, Chief of French Navy
  • Vice-Admiral Jeffrey Anderson, Commander of the 6th Fleet, U.S. Navy, and Commander of the Striking and Support Forces NATO
  • Rear Admiral Olivier Berdal, Chief of the Royal Norwegian Navy
  • Admiral Sir Ben Key, First Sea Lord, Royal Navy
  • Rear Admiral Søren Kjeldsen, Chief of the Royal Danish Navy
Chair : Élie Tenenbaum, Director of Ifri's Security Studies Center
 
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Press conference with the Navy Chiefs of Staff and their representatives
 
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Lunch Break 

1:45pm - 2:00 pm | Presentation of the « Admiral Castex » prize
 
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Roundtable n°2 – Security in support of prosperity: safeguarding critical flows to enable long-term economic development
 
Speakers :
  • Simon Bergulf, Group Representative Europe Public and Regulatory Affairs, Head of Energy transition and Operations, Maersk
  • Emily Holland, Deputy Political Advisor for Critical Undersea Infrastructure, NATO Maritime Command
  • Rear-Admiral Patrick Hayden, Director of Maritime HQ and Director of Logistics, Ordnance and Engineering, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Africa, U.S. 6th Fleet
  • Edouard Louis-Dreyfus, chairman of Armateurs de France
Chair: Héloïse Fayet, Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, Ifri
 
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Coffee Break 
 
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Roundtable n°3 – The influence of the maritime economy on naval power: rethinking Mahan in the 21st century
Speakers :
  • Elisabeth Braw, Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
  • Nick Childs, Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security, International Institute for Strategic Studies
  • Nicolas Mazzucchi, Research director of French Navy Center for Strategic Studies
Chair: Maxence Brischoux, non-resident fellow at the Centre Thucydide, Université Paris Panthéon Assas
 
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm |  Concluding speech
Christine Cabau, Executive Vice-President in Charge of Assets and Operations, CMA-CGM
 
5:30 pm - 5:35 pm |  Concluding remarks
Thomas Gomart, Director of Ifri 
 

This conference will take place in French and English with simultaneous interpretation.

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Authors
Thomas GOMART

Thomas GOMART

Director of Ifri

Élie TENENBAUM

Élie TENENBAUM

Director of Ifri’s Security Studies Center

heloise fayet

Heloïse FAYET

Research Fellow and head of the Deterrence and Proliferation program, Security Studies Center, Ifri

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Security - Defense , Defense Policy and Armed Forces , Naval Forces , Military Alliances , European Defense , NATO , Ocean Governance , Military strategy , Naval Combat , Maritime security , Naval Warfare , France, United States, Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom