Élodie Bernard is a French writer, adventurer and entrepreneur, born in June 1984 in Troyes.
Biography
Family and training Élodie Bernard traveled the Andes, the Himalayas, Karakorum, and the Hindu Kush with her father at a very young age, which made her familiar with long-distance adventures.Entretien avec Gilles Fumey, Revue La GéoGraphie , April–May–June 2012 Her parents are dental surgeons, settled in Troyes, in the Aube.Portrait dans L'Est-Eclair, "Une histoire de famille", 11 février 2017
Élodie Bernard is a graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in international relations and has taken various cross-disciplinary courses, notably in psychoanalysis at the Université Paris-VIII and at the École de guerre économique.
She is a member of the Society of French Explorers.
Adventure in Tibet Like Alexandra David-Néel before her, Élodie Bernard entered Tibet, then closed to foreigners by the Chinese authorities, clandestinely. At the age of only 24, following the unrest in Tibet in March 2008, she boarded buses and trucks and travelled through Tibet, from Amdo to Kham to Lhasa, alone and without permission, during the Beijing Olympics.Chapitres 2 et 3, Le vol du paon mène à Lhassa, Elodie Bernard. Gallimard, Paris, 2010. Despite the terror in Tibet, she met Tibetans and Chinese who confided in her and invited her to their homes. She was eventually spotted by agents of the Public Security Bureau and deported to Beijing.Interview d’Élodie Bernard par Monique Atlan sur France 2, "Dans quelle étagère", 4 June 2010
At the end of her clandestine stay in Lhasa, she published Le vol du peon mène à Lhassa (The Flight of the Peacock Leads to Lhasa), her first travel story, gathering testimonies and her experience in Tibet.Jean-Paul Ribes, "Le vol du paon mène à Lhassa", Élodie Bernard, 11 May 2010 For television journalist Philippe Lefait, the essence of this adventure is "in the chance and poetry of the encounters, the smell of butter that accompanies the tea, the fear of controls, the courage of those who testify, the mystery of the spirituality of a people, the commitment and resistance of the nuns and monks.""Le vol du paon mène à Lhassa" Élodie Bernard, Gallimard, 10 May 2010 - Les chroniques de Philippe Lefait dans Le Magazine littéraire
In November 2010, her book, Le vol du peon mène à Lhassa, was awarded the Golden Fleece Prize for the book of lived adventure by the Book Jury, chaired by the writer Sylvain Tesson. Tesson spoke of the book as an "open window on the world."Le vol du paon mène à Lhassa, par Élodie Bernard, Trek Magazine, 29 November 2010
She regularly gives her testimony on the situation in Tibet.Dialogue avec Olivier Germain-Thomas Elodie Bernard, For intérieur, France Culture, 11 June 20103ème Salon de la Culture Tibétaine, 30 avril - 1er mai 2011, Paris, 30 March 2011, Comité de soutien au peuple tibétain She is the author of several articles on Tibet, one of which, published by Mediapart, is co-signed by the ecologists Eva Joly and Jean-Marc Brûlé.
Her experience in Tibet is included in the book Femmes d'Exception by Célyne Baÿt-Darcourt, published by France Info and Tallandier.
Middle East Since 2006, Élodie has been collaborating with La Revue de Téhéran, Iran's leading French-language cultural magazine, after having worked in Tehran during the year. She has been a regular visitor to Iran since 2005.
In the winter of 2010–2011, Elodie moved between France and the Middle EastEntretien pour Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière, Magazine Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière juillet-août-septembre 2015 to set up her competitive intelligence consulting company, Networld-Risk. She regularly publishes newsletters on Iran and the Middle East, as well as geopolitical analyses.
Publications
Books
Travel stories
2010 : Le Vol du paon mène à Lhassa, Gallimard
Collective works
2012 : L'Almanach des voyageurs, "La fin d'un monde. Lettre à Mawlânâ Rûmî", sous la direction de Jean-Claude Perrier, Magellan & Cie 2013 : L'Almanach des voyageurs, "Babel, une tour au milieu des ruines", sous la direction de Jean-Claude Perrier, Magellan & Cie
Articles
Geopolitical press articles
"Damskaïa, une vodka russe version féminine", Regard sur l'Est, 1 July 2008 "Au Tibet, l'ordre et l'indifférence règnent," written pseudonymously, Le Monde, 14 August 2008Elodie Bernard, "Au Tibet, l'ordre et l'indifférence règnent", Le Monde, 14 August 2008 "Un moine tibétain : au village, on n'ose plus me regarder", written pseudonymously, Nouvel Obs, 15 March 2009Elodie Bernard, "Un moine tibétain : au village, on n'ose plus me regarder", Nouvel Obs, 15 March 2009 "Le Tibet, un combat profondément écologiste", co-author, Mediapart, 9 March 2012. "Le Tibet indigné", Yahoo pour elles, 12 March 2012. "Le rêve de Tawakkol Karman", Muze, January / February / March 2012 "Sous le niqab, un regard", Muze, January / February / March 2012 "Entretien avec la photographe yéménite Boushra Almutawakel", Muze, January / February / March 2012 "La langue persane au commencement des routes de la Soie", La Revue de Téhéran, February 2013Elodie Bernard, "La langue persane au commencement des routes de la Soie", La Revue de Téhéran, February 2013 "Perses et Chinois au temps de l'Empire mongol", La Revue de Téhéran, February 2014Elodie Bernard, "Perses et Chinois au temps de l'Empire mongol", La Revue de Téhéran, February 2014 "La Géorgie et les Géorgiens iraniens à l'époque safavide", La Revue de Téhéran, July 2014Elodie Bernard "La Géorgie et les Géorgiens iraniens à l'époque safavide", La Revue de Téhéran, July 2014 "Négocier en Iran, c'est négocier dans le temps : l'art de la diplomatie iranienne," Les Echos, 8 July 2015Elodie Bernard "Négocier en Iran, c'est négocier dans le temps : l'art de la diplomatie iranienne", Les Echos, 8 July 2015 "L'Iran : une puissance réhabilitée", Le Figaro, 17 July 2015Elodie Bernard "L'Iran : une puissance réhabilitée", Le Figaro, 17 July 2015 "Négociations avec les Iraniens, mode d'emploi", France TV Info, 23 July 2015Elodie Bernard "Négociations avec les Iraniens, mode d'emploi", France TV Info, 23 July 2015 "Par delà les plus hautes frontières du monde, au Tibet", , 10 March 2017Elodie Bernard "Par delà les plus hautes frontières du monde, au Tibet", Libération, 10 March 2017 "Cet été, osez le risque mais soyez vigilant," TV5 Monde, 8 July 2017Elodie Bernard "Cet été, osez le risque mais soyez vigilant", TV5 Monde, 8 July 2017
Scientific articles
"Prix bas du pétrole : l'"OPEP+" dans la tourmente", chapitre Iran, Etudes de l'IFRI, juin 2018
References
External links Gallimard, collection Le Sentiment géographique Official website of Networld-Risk