Yannick Quéau is an independent consultant and an associate researcher at GRIP and at “Observatoire de l’Économie politique de la défense” (Observatory of the defense political economy, OEPD, Montreal). From November 2010 to August 2013, he worked as an associate researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS, Paris).  

His fields of expertise range from the defence industry and economics to trade in arms controls, and to international security. Besides, he was an analyst at Technopole défense et sécurité in Valcartier (Quebec, Canada, and more precisely at « Bureau de commercialisation et d’intelligence des marchés »). In Saint Jean-sur-Richelieu (Canada), Yannick Quéau was a teacher on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.