Dominique Luzeaux

NATO

(Former) Digital Transformation Champion, NATO Allied Command for Transformation

Description

Dominique Luzeaux entered the Ministry of Defense in 1984, as a cadet within the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr and platoon leader, 43rd Infantry Regiment. He graduated from École Polytechnique and École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées as an armament engineer. His first position was research engineer in artificial intelligence and robotics. He defended his PhD thesis at University of Paris XI, and was a visiting postdoctoral research scientist at University of California Berkeley (1991-1992). Within the French Armament Procurement Agency, he occupied various positions as expert, project manager and director, in the domains of C4ISR, Complex System Engineering and Information Systems. On promotion to Brigadier General in 2009, he was assigned as Director for Land Systems acquisition. He was named Honorary Private First Class of the Army for his personal implication in various armament programs, among them the Unitary Rocket Launcher in cooperation with Germany and the United States. Promoted to Major General in 2014, he joined the Joint Staff until 2021, as Deputy Director for Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems at Ministry of Defense level. From 2021 to 2023, he was Director of the newly created Digital Defense Agency within the French Ministry of Defense, in charge of all Defense complex digital projects. He joined NATO’s Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk Virginia in December 2023, as Digital Transformation Champion and Special Advisor to SACT. Besides, he defended in 2001 his Professor thesis, directed a dozen PhD students, published around hundred articles in conferences and international journals, has written 10 books in French and English on nanotechnology, on simulation, on complex systems engineering, and on digital public debates. He received the “Ingénieur Général Chanson” Award in 2006 for his work on military autonomous unmanned ground vehicles. He is Officer of the French Legion of Honour and Commander of the French Order of Merit.