Frances is a student of geopolitics, international law and defence & security following a long career in capital markets investing in Sydney and London.
She has been attending Master’s degree classes at the University of Paris 2 Sorbonne-Assas, complementing her own research with formal instruction with international law and political-science theory. She also attends lectures at the Jacques Delors Institute and the EU Institute for Security Studies, among other organisations..
An occasional contributor to Pearls and Irritations, L’Association Réalités et Relations Internationales in Paris as well as to L’Institut du Pacifique, where she is member of the board of directors. From 2016 to 2023 Frances served as a contributor to and director of TheEuropeanNetwork.eu.
During her career in capital markets investing, including as Head of Investment Risk for a major British insurer and asset manager, Frances spoke regularly at professional investment conferences and contributed to well-known professional journals. She authored two monographs published by Palgrave-MacMillan and co-authored one published by Wiley.
Australian born, she lives in Paris, speaks French more-or-less fluently, basic Spanish, even more basic Italian, a haze of Indonesian and some German. She dances Argentine tango, likes all animals, especially cats, but doesn’t have any of her own.
Australian-born and European by adoption, Frances Cowell believes Europe must urgently assume the global lead in protecting and preserving liberal democracy, the rule of law and the multi-lateral institutions and alliances that it depends on.
