Olivier Védrine is a professor, journalist and former European Commission lecturer in the Team Europe expert network (2007-2014).
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Democratic Club in France.
In 2023, he was awarded the academic distinction of Professor Honoris Causa by the National Polytechnic University of Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk).
He was awarded the Academic Palms in 2022 in the presence of his Excellencies Etienne de Poncins - French Ambassador to Ukraine and Vadym Omelchenko - Ukrainian Ambassador to France.
He is a regular contributor to LCI, BFMTV, Franceinfo TV and foreign television, and writes in the Tribune de Genève.
Some of his contributions:
- Make Europa Great Again! - Olivier Védrine - Tribune de Genève (Switzerland) - 29.01.2025
- Political scientist - Russia blurs the boundaries between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons - Olivier Védrine - Polska Agencja Pasowa - 20.11.2024
- Russia is changing the rules of the game. Is the nuclear threat getting closer? Expert warns of escalation - Olivier Védrine - Dziennik.pl - 20.11.2024
- Europe will have to face up to Russia - Interview - Olivier Védrine - wPolitce.pl - 19.11.2024
- 1000 days of war. French political scientist: any truce can only be a pause; Europe must arm itself - Olivier Védrine - zw.lt - 19.11.2024
- Russia's ability to bounce back is surprising - Olivier Védrine - Tribune de Genève (Switzerland) - 17.07.2024
- Navalny's struggle: 'Time will come for a change in Russia' - Olivier Védrine - VOXEUROP - 23 January 2021
- The future of Europe is at stake now - Olivier Védrine - Tribune de Genève (Switzerland) - 19.05.2020
- What conference on the "future of Europe"? - Olivier Védrine - openDemocracy - 11 May 2020
- Russia is regressing: thank you Putin! - Olivier Védrine - Le Devoir (Canada) - 5 July 2019
- Зеленский может стать лекарством от " украинской усталости " - Оливье Ведрин - " НОВЫЕ ИЗВЕСТИЯ " - 15 апреля 2019
- How best to target Putin - Olivier Védrine - The New European (UK) - October 3, 2018
He was the editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of the "Revue Défense Nationale" (2010-2014) in Paris at the École Militaire, he stopped the Russian edition of the "Revue Défense Nationale" at the beginning of 2014 to protest against the annexation of Crimea. Political adviser on Ukraine to Henri Malosse, President of the European Economic and Social Committee (2013-2015) in Brussels.
As a TV presenter, he has presented more than 150 TV programmes on national TV channels in Ukraine, including his own political TV show in support of Ukraine and the European Union. In 2021, with the Kyiv Post newspaper, a new TV show was planned to start in March 202. The first pilot broadcasts were recorded in January 2022 and early February 2022.
Talk Show UA Tea Time
(2015-2016)
Weekly with Olivier Védrine
for UATV (2016-2017)
The Western Voice With Olivier Védrine
(2018)
A member of the Russian opposition, he is editor-in-chief of Russian Monitor, a Russian opposition Internet newspaper with 500,000 unique visitors a month. He has been awarded the title of Professor Honoris Causa by Kiev International University. Olivier Védrine was awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir by the Patriarch Philaret of Kiev, an order rarely awarded to a foreigner.
He is or has been a speaker at various universities and institutions in France, Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Poland, Canada, Taiwan, Italy, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Romania, the Netherlands, Georgia and Portugal.
Notable speeches and writings :
Intervention at 33rd Economic ForumThe Jean Monnet Association will be represented at the Davos summit in Eastern Europe. 3 September 2024


Conference in Canada on 29 May 2024 as part of the CÉRIUM Summer School (Université de Montréal) in collaboration with the Ukrainian Studies Chair of the University of Ottawa on the theme
"The war between Russia and Ukraine: local dynamics, global consequences".
Sponsor of the 3rd SALON DU LIVRE MILITAIRE ET DU RENSEIGNEMENT in Calais in 2024 organised by the NATO Memorial Federation


Crises and regulations - Singularity and inadequacy of institutions - Olivier Cuissard and Olivier Védrine, European University Publishing, July 2021
Speech at the Ukrainian Сrisis Media Center with Isabelle Dumont, French Ambassador to Ukraine
16 June 2014
Speech at the Ukrainian Сrisis Media Center in attendance by Henri Malosse
22 May 2014

The Cahiers de la Revue Défense Nationale - The Arctic as a strategic theatre - Edited by Olivier Védrine, October 2011
Ideas for a United Europe Essays by Olivier Védrine (English Edition), Publisher Libertas, Year 2010, ISBN 9783946119173
