Elias Forneris

Elias Forneris is Head of Research Governance and Editorial of RUSI. He manages the editorial process for RUSI research papers. He also oversees internal policy for Research Ethics & Integrity.

Elias is a historian of French and Belgian background who spent extensive time in the US and the UK He researches transnational political cooperation between Britain, France and Belgium. He is also a published scholar on the question of political thought in exile.

He first obtained a B.A. in Political Science and History from Sciences Po Paris, followed by a B.A. in History from Columbia University. He subsequently completed an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. Elias’s Ph.D. focused on European exiles in Britain during the Second World War. At Cambridge, he was also a supervisor in Politics and International Studies.

Elias serves on the Editorial Board of The Tocqueville Review | La revue Tocqueville, where he works on questions pertaining to Transatlantic political thought. He is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the Society for the Study of French History.

He is fluent in English and French.

'René Cassin and the invention of Free France, 1940–41' French History (2025)

'Raymond Aron’s Sociology of Collaborators, 1940–1944' International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society (2024)

'Diagnosing France' Journal of the History of Ideas Blog (August 2023).

'Raymond Aron's War: A 'History of the Present' (1940–1944)' The Tocqueville Review / La revue Tocqueville 43, 2 (2022). Published on Project MUSE with the University of Toronto Press