Royal Air Force (RAF) veteran Sophy Gardner is not yet 50 but has already had four distinct lives: doctoral student, politician, entrepreneur and wing commander. Currently a doctoral student at Exeter University, the PhD she hopes to submit by autumn 2019…
Monique Legrand-Larroche is a petite woman whose kind blue eyes and very long hair, habitually worn in a ponytail, belie the iron determination which led her to becoming France's first 4-star General... and the holder of a private helicopter pilot's licence…
Caroline Laurent has a very quiet voice for a four-star General! I have to lean forwards to hear her even though we're sitting in a large, quiet office that's been set up for her in the French Ministry of the Armed Forces' pavilion at the Eurosatory land and air-land show, held just outside Paris last week. I have half an hour scheduled with her. Our conversation lasts more than twice that long…
Christine Chaulieu became a French Army Brigadier General on 19th July 2016, the first active female soldier in the Army to be appointed to this rank for 26 years and only the fourth to attain such a rank in the history of the French Army…
Delphine is not only a colonel in the French DGA (see glossary), she's an engineer, a doctor in robotics and has been the director of advanced studies for land systems for the past year. “What motivates me is trying to build things,” she says…
Julie Rosier (…) holds a doctorate in the treatment of audio signals. She laughed when I asked her if she even knew such a thing existed when she was still at school and replied “of course not!”…
