Naval Group
Vanessa Cauvin has a diverse work experience in various roles within the defense industry. Vanessa currently works for Naval Group as the Export Sales Director for Drones and Underwater Weapons. Prior to this, they served as the EU Sales Director and European R&D Cooperation Manager for the same company. Before Naval Group, Vanessa worked as the Bid and Business Development Manager for DCNS Research and Sirehna, where they were responsible for bid management, development of new activities, and sales activities. Vanessa also served as the Operational Marketing & Business Development Manager and System Engineer at DCNS. Vanessa began their career as the Head of Departments at GICAN and also gained experience as a Marketing Intelligence Analyst at Thales. Vanessa started their professional journey as a Trainee at DGA - Direction générale de l'armement.
Vanessa CAUVIN completed their Master's degree in European and International Relations from Sciences Po Aix from 1998 to 2002. Vanessa then pursued an Intensive seminar for professionals in European institutions at the College of Europe in 2007. In 2002-2003, they obtained a Master 2 (M2) degree in Defence, security, business intelligence from Université Côte d'Azur. Additionally, they studied Sciences politiques et gouvernement at Freie Universität Berlin from 2000 to 2001.