Pauline Baudu is a researcher and policy analyst focusing on the intersection between climate change and security, particularly in the Arctic region and as it relates to NATO’s agenda. She is the Managing Fellow of the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute’s Climate and Security Programme. In this capacity, she has been in charge of designing the programmation of the annual Montreal Climate Security Summit, co-hosted in partnership with the NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE). She is also a PhD candidate in Political Science at Université du Québec à Montréal. 

Additionally, she has been involved as a Senior Fellow at Arctic360, an associate at Arctic Security Consultants, a member of the NATO Research Task Group on the Effects of Climate Change on Security (SAS-182), and she coordinates the Climate Security Association of Canada. Among her past engagements, she has been a research co-lead for the U.S. Naval War College’s Newport Arctic Scholars Initiative with a group of international scholars and naval officers studying integrated naval deterrence in the Arctic (2023-2024) and participated in the consultation process to inform the creation of the NATO CCASCOE (2022). She previously worked as a research assistant with the Center for Climate and Security and the Wilson Center Polar Institute and Environmental Change and Security Program.

Her work is further informed by her nine-year experience in human rights and asylum law. In particular, she has served as a public official at the French National Asylum Court (2018-2023), and previously with the United Nations Human Rights Office in Geneva and with civil society organizations on migrants’ rights and non-discrimination. 

She is a graduate from the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs in Defense and Security (MA) and holds degrees in Crisis Analysis and Humanitarian Action (MA) and Applied Linguistics (BA).