Dr Grare has moved between government and academic worlds. A graduate of the Geneva Graduate Institute and the Paris Institute of Political Science (Science Po), he has also served as an advisor at the Centre for Analysis, worked in forecasting and strategy at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and as head of the Asia bureau at the Directorate for Strategic Affairs in the French Ministry of Defence.

He has also worked at the French embassy in Pakistan and as director of the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities in New Delhi.

Dr Grare has written extensively on security issues in Asia, particularly South Asia.