A researcher and entrepreneur, François Soulard graduated with a degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Rennes 1 (France) in 1997 and worked as a project manager for the Nord-Pas de Calais Regional Council on sustainable land use planning and environmental education. An adventure lover and young internationalist activist, he created the Traversées association in 2003 to lead a three-year itinerant journey around the world, with the aim of exploring modes of social organization and approaches to development. This gave him a new perspective on reality, that is to say, a broader understanding of power relations, knowledge, and the dynamics of social transformation. In 2008, he moved to Argentina and became involved in various social movements and citizens' assemblies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia linked to the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural, and United World.

In 2012, on the occasion of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, he founded the digital communication platform Dunia with two Latin American engineers. The Earth Summit marked a new stage in the architecture of dependence and control hidden behind the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN. The Dunia platform aims to equip networks and promote free software, working with networks and institutions in their use of information for organizational, strategic intelligence, or communication purposes. In this context, geopolitical issues and the strategic use of information have gradually become central to the platform's agenda.

Control of cyberspace has become a central issue, while the balance of power in terms of information has changed the nature of conflicts and modes of confrontation since the 1990s. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence in 2022 is now combined with control of finance, digital currencies, and national policies. François Soulard participates in projects such as the Forum for a New Global Governance, the Dictionary of Global Power (published in French and Spanish), and initiatives promoting a citizen-led and sovereign internet (World Forum for Free Media, Forum for a Citizen Internet, For a Digital New Deal).

Since 2018, Dunia has been exploring issues of information warfare, particularly around the power dynamics at play in the Amazon, mining conflicts, the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the emergence of China. Links have been developed with the École de Guerre Économique (School of Economic Warfare), the CR451 Applied Research Center, the journals Conflits, Sécurité globale, and Problèmes d'Amérique latine, as well as with the World Forum for Social Economy and the Iconomie Institute.

In 2023, François Soulard published his book, Una nueva era de confrontación informational en América Latina, (A New Era of Information Confrontation in Latin America) in Spanish (Ciccus editions, Buenos Aires, 2023). In 2025, he also published a book in French, La culture de combat en Amérique latine (The Culture of Combat in Latin America, VA editions), followed by Combatir en el Nuevo Mundo (Combat in the New World) in Spanish (Ciccus editions). He teaches economic and information intelligence in Latin America and Africa as part of the Iberonex network. He has also translated several works by geostrategist Gérard Chaliand, such as Atlas stratégique, Pourquoi perd-on la guerre?, Terrorisme et politique. In addition to the digital services provided through Dunia, his work is currently focused on strategic cultures, changes linked to computerization, and geopolitical power relations in a world transitioning toward Chinese hegemony.

This major transition marks a new historical cycle, following the hegemonic periods of Spain, Holland, Great Britain, and then the United States. Paradoxically, a large part of the Western elite is actively participating in this transition because it represents a new opportunity for growth and transnational control of resources. This dimension is now an integral part of the author's research.