Mayeul Kauffmann studied political science in Sciences Po Paris and economics (including econometrics) in Paris XI University, McGill University (Canada) and the University of Grenoble, where he earned a PhD in International Economics (thesis dissertation on global economic governance and armed conflicts).He has a research experience of more than 20 years in the quantitative analysis of international security issues and published numerous articles, books and reports on these issues. He served as Senior Data Scientist and Director of Research in various public and private research institutes (including the European Commission Joint Research Centre and various renowned international NGOs). He is a member of the EU Group of Experts on Quantitative Conflict Modelling. He has an international experience as lecturer in various universities and currently teaches statistical methods for the study of international security and defense issues at the Master’s level (University of Grenoble). He was Database Manager at CartONG (an NGO devoted to Digital Information Management in the humanitarian world), where he also served as a GIS expert.He contributed to the development and translation of several open source software.Since 2019, he is also the President of the IRNC (Institut de recherche sur la Résolution non Violente des Conflits, http://irnc.org).