In the early 2000s , Pothier co-founded the Senlis Council , later renamed the International Council on Security and Development ) , a project founded by the Network of European Foundations and led a global advocacy campaign calling for a more progressive drugs policy . He established a partnership with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and worked in Afghanistan advocating against the ‘ war on drugs ’ and working with the Afghan Red Crescent in developing better health facilities for drug addicts . He is credited to having been the first to publish a report on the insurgency in the province of Helmand . Within NATO , Pothier is credited to have been behind some of the Alliance ’s most consequential initiatives launched at the 2014 NATO Summit including the Readiness Action Plan , the Defence Capacity Building Initiative and Smart Defence at the Chicago Summit in May 2012 . He advised the NATO Secretary General on a wide range of strategic issues and on his communication strategy , including by drafting landmark speeches and articles for the Munich Security Conference and Foreign Affairs
2014 NATO Summit
2014 Wales summit
Fabrice Pothier