Professional firefighter for 30 years, on an operational level, he has commanded and participated in large-scale interventions such as floods and forest fires. He has developed skills in crisis management and coordination in evaluation and training missions in South America, Europe and the Mediterranean basin.

Since 2018, he has worked as a foreign officer at the French Ministry of the Interior, in the Department of International Relations of the Directorate General for Civil Security and Crisis Management. He served as a liaison officer for the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) and the Mediterranean Basin, and subsequently as a Senior Advisor in Civil Protection at the Union for the Mediterranean, where he initiated the Mediterranean Civil Protection Mechanism, aimed at expanding the UCPM to Southern countries. Within the UCPM, he is certificated as Team Leader, and has been deployed twice to South America: in 2017 as a forest fire expert in Chile, and 2019 in Bolivia.

Coordinator of Euromed PPRD South III programme, he was member of peer reviews (Tunisia, Algeria), more recently to the peer review in Romania (2022), Moldova (2023), and Advisory Mission on Wildfires in Czech Republic (2024). Member of the committee of the UCPM Wildfire Peer Review Assessment Framework.

French representative on EU working parties, DG ECHO-Disaster Prevention Expert Group, lecturer at Masters in emergency management and damage at University of Malaga (Spain) and Institute for Engineers and Applied Science (Ecole des Mines, Alès, France).

He participates in many seminars at the European and international level as a speaker on crisis management (EU Civil Protection forum, Nicosia Risk Forum, Annual DRMKC seminar, OBA [American Firefighters Organization]), writes technical or prospect articles (Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network, Crisis Response Journal, LIREC, EURACTIV, IEMED), is part of many advisory boards (ARISTOTLE eENHSP, GOBEYOND, SUNSHINE,…) on EU projects, and co-editor of doctrine and study reports on governance, crisis management and wildfires.