Energy, grids and sovereignty — and what they change geopolitically, in France, in Africa and across the Indo-Pacific, Taiwan in particular. I teach, I write, and I work with schools, newsrooms and institutions. Nearly two decades in energy, associate fellow at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès.
Feature in the Taipei Times: the referendum, the regulator and the budget settle whether Taiwan wants reactors. Fuel fabrication, enrichment and the back end decide whether it can run them.
Op-ed in African Arguments: Cameroon holds some of Central Africa's largest hydroelectric resources — yet chronic power cuts remain the norm. Drawing on a field mission in Yaoundé, the article examines the structural barriers — sector renationalisation, underinvestment in distribution networks, fragmented governance — that sustain this paradox.
Taiwan imports 95% of its energy and is connected to no external grid, even as TSMC could consume a quarter of the island's electricity by 2030. Romain Blachier examines this sovereignty challenge, drawing comparisons with Ireland, Cameroon and France.
Energy and geopolitics often look technical and reserved for specialists. My work is to make them clear and useful — for students, a newsroom or an executive team.
This approach is grounded in experience: eighteen years in energy and twelve years in elected office in the Lyon metropolitan area. Markets, grids and public decision-making — I practised them before teaching them.
An associate fellow at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, I publish regularly in specialised journals and in the press, in France and abroad. My research covers African power systems, oil geopolitics, Taiwan's energy sovereignty, and paradiplomacy.
I have been teaching since 2010 — in business schools, universities and executive education, in French, English and Spanish. The institutions I have taught at since then are listed below; the courses change from one year to the next.
This perspective was also shaped in the field — in Cameroon, Cambodia, Ukraine and Taiwan. In 2026, a mission in Yaoundé on electricity sector reform.
I run these in parallel because they answer one another. What you see in the field ends up in a lecture, then in an article — and the article usually makes you want to go back.
I do four things, and they hold together. How electricity gets produced, who controls the grids, what that weighs in a balance of power: these take a long time to understand. You have to read them, go and see, teach them, then write them down.
Lectures at business schools and universities, training for executives and elected officials, keynotes. Energy markets, the transition, geopolitics, public communications — in French, English and Spanish. I have been teaching since 2010; the institutions are listed below.
Analysis and op-eds in the French and international press, think-tank papers, radio and television commentary. This is where I test what I think I have understood.
Short assignments for institutions and organizations: sector diagnosis, scoping papers, stakeholder consultation, institutional and crisis communications. Assignments in France, Cameroon and Taiwan.
Consulting →I am an associate fellow at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, and I carry out research on the governance of power systems alongside it. This is the slow part, the one that takes years.
Research →From business schools to corporate seminars, from elected officials training to executive workshops, I design and deliver training that makes complex subjects accessible — energy, geopolitics, sovereignty, strategic communications. My approach combines academic rigour, field experience in Africa and Asia, twelve years of executive public office and hands-on pedagogy.
Organizations I train for
Institutions I have taught at since 2010, at various times and for varying durations.
Scheduled for 2026-2027: École Centrale de Lyon, INSA Lyon.
For training, a conference, a media appearance or a collaboration: write to me by email or through the form.