Who we are
A small firm, a European network.
Matthieu Blondeau
Founder · European affairs consultant
- Administrator at the European Parliament, Directorate for Communication (2013–2020)
- Evaluator of EU tenders and grants, at the Parliament and then for the Commission
- European affairs and communication for the European Capital of Culture bid, on behalf of 600 Massif central authorities led by Clermont-Ferrand (2021–2023)
- Europe ambassador for the Pôle d’Excellence Cyber (since 2025)
- Co-founder of the European Video Games Observatory; coordinates the European Narratives Observatory for DG CONNECT within OPSCI.AI
- Large-scale crisis exercises in the nuclear sector (2001–2009)
- Sciences Po Bordeaux · MBA ICADE Madrid · teaches European policy at master’s level
Altamira Publics is an independent firm, based in Paris, led by Matthieu Blondeau and complemented, assignment by assignment, by a network of specialist partners — lawyers, researchers, data analysts, writers.
The format is a choice. It guarantees that the person you meet is the person working on your file, and it allows the exact competence a project needs to be assembled each time, rather than selling whatever hours a structure happens to have available.
Our legitimacy comes from inside the institutions. Seven years as an administrator at the European Parliament change how you prepare a note and how you choose the moment to intervene. Those years were also spent on the other side of the table: on evaluation committees for EU tenders and grants, and then as an evaluator for the European Commission. You do not write a proposal the same way once you have scored other people’s.
Our footing in the cyber and defence sector rests not on an address but on a mandate: Europe ambassador for the Pôle d’Excellence Cyber, which puts us in contact with the manufacturers, public agencies and laboratories on which the European files we carry depend.