Jean-Claude Mallet

Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter, second from left, is escorted through the courtyard of the French Ministry of Defense by French senior political adviser Jean-Claude Mallet as they walk to a meeting in Paris, France, on Feb. 1, 2013. Jean-Claude Mallet (born 25 March 1955) is a Special Adviser to the French Defence Minister and a member of the council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was Secretary-General for National Defence from 1998 to 2004.

Selected publications Flaubert à l'œuvre (with Raymonde Debray-Genette and Pierre-Marc de Biasi), Paris, Flammarion, 1993. La Défense, de la nation à l'Europe (ed.), Paris, La documentation française, 1996. Livre blanc sur la Défense et la Sécurité nationale ed., foreword by Nicolas Sarkozy), Paris, Odile Jacob, 2008. Livre blanc sur la Défense et la Sécurité nationale – les débats (ed.), Paris, Odile Jacob, 2008.