Alain de Benoist, also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and other pen names, is a French political philosopher and journalist, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite, and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE.
Aged 16 at the time, de Benoist began his career as a journalist in Henry Coston's magazine Lectures Française.
Ian Smith, then the president of Rhodesia, prefaced de Benoist's 1965 book Rhodésie, pays des lions fidèles.
De Benoist (centre) at the Delta Foundation symposium of Antwerp in 2011
Oswald Spengler and the Conservative Revolution have had a strong influence on de Benoist's thought.
The Groupement de Recherche et d'Études pour la Civilisation Européenne, better known as GRECE, is a French ethnonationalist think tank founded in 1968 to promote the ideas of the Nouvelle Droite. GRECE founding member Alain de Benoist has been described as its leader and "most authoritative spokesman". Prominent former members include Guillaume Faye and Jean-Yves Le Gallou.
Jean-Yves Le Gallou in 2016.
Guillaume Faye in 2015.