Francis Ghilès

Francis Ghilès

Associate Senior Researcher

Geographical lines: The greater Mediterranean
Thematic lines: Global geopolitics and security

Graduate with honours in Political Science from Grenoble, he has been awarded postgraduate degrees from St Antony's College, Oxford and the University of Keele. He is Associate Senior Researcher at CIDOB and Visiting Fellow of King’s College. Specialises in security, financial and energy trends in Europe and the Western Mediterranean. He has written on international capital markets for Euromoney and the Financial Times. He was the FT's North Africa Correspondent from 1981 to 1995. Francis Ghilès is also a freelancer for newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, El Pais and La Vanguardia. He is a frequent commentator in the broadcasting media, notably the BBC World Service. He has acted as adviser to Western governments (UK, France and the US) and to major European, American and Japanese corporations working in North Africa. His interests are focused on analysing emerging trends concerning gas and linking them with the political priorities of Spain, Europe and the USA.

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  • Ghilès, Francis. Les facteurs économiques pèsent peu dans la gestion des pays partenaires méditerranéens. En: Pierre Vermeren (dir).Économie politique de la Tunisie et du Maghreb Les défis de la mondialisation années 1980 - années 2020. [pag. 69-89]. Paris: Hémisphères éditions, 2024.
  • Ghilès, Francis. Why does the West so often get Tunisia wrong?. The Arab Weekly 2023 [consulta 27 de junio de 2023] Disponible en: Why does the West so often get Tunisia wrong? | Francis Ghiles | AW (thearabweekly.com)
  • Ghilès, Francis. ¿Puede darse por sentada la democracia?. Esglobal 2022 [consulta 31 de agosto de 2022] Disponible en: https://www.esglobal.org/puede-darse-por-sentada-la-democracia/
  • Ghilès, Francis;Snaije, Bassem. The reasons Tunisia deserves stronger support from the European Union. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. February,2022. [Consultation: 7 March 2022] Available in: <https://rosaluxna.org/publications/the-reasons-tunisia-deserves-stronger-support-from-the-european-union> 
  • Ghilès, Francis. La croissance, c’est possible!. Afrique Magazine. nº. 377, février, 2018
  • Ghilès, Francis. North Africa’s New Directions. Cairo Review of Global Affairs, February (2016) 
  • Ghilès, Francis. The Frontiers of North Africa need Reconsidering. En: The Challenge of North Africa. [pag. 87-100]. Paris: University of London Institute in Pais, 2014
  • The refugee crisis: Europe’s failure. Open Democracy,  September 2015