EA
Emmanuel Ankri
Defence Angels European Network
Managing Director
Description
Emmanuel Ankri is the Managing Director and co-founder of the Defence Angels European Network (DAEN), the first pan-European business angel network dedicated to defence and dual-use investment. After leading Défense Angels France, he scaled the initiative to the European level to connect private investors with the startups all over the continent to strengthen Europe's defence technological and industrial base.
He is also Strategy Director at the Institut National des Affaires Stratégiques (INAS) and advises companies and institutions on strategy, business development, public affairs and financing. His background includes ministerial cabinet experience at the French Ministry of the Armed Forces as well as the writing of a report for the French Government on the European Defence Industrial Strategy. A graduate of Sciences Po's Security and Defence programme, with an exchange at King's College London's Department of War Studies, he has served in the French Army Reserve since 2020.
Loading