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Founding Member
Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos is a Doctor in political science. He graduated from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (IEP) and is a senior researcher with the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD). He lived several years in Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya, works on armed conflicts in English-speaking Africa South of the Sahara, and studies forced migrations’ issues. He wrote several books about Nigeria, South Africa, Somalia and humanitarian aid.
Secretary General
In Morocco between 1956 and 1969, Patrice Blacque-Belair advised the Prime minister then the minister of Planning on development issues. Between 1970 and 1990 he was UNDP’s (United Nations Development Program) main economic advisor and the head of the development planning’s service. Since 1991, he is an independent consultant in France, and has conducted several evaluations in developing countries for the United Nations, the French co-operation, etc.
Developer of the website
A computer engineer, Ghislain Benrais was a developer for the poll institute CSA (Conseils Sondages Analyses) and he now works for a start-up, Wakuroo. Between 1992 and 1994 he was a volunteer teacher in Gabon for the African Institute of Computer Science. In 1994, with the ministry of planning, he also participated in the statistical examination of a budget and consumption’s survey in Libreville. Since then, he has gone back to Africa several times.
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Originally from Belgium, Clara Broekaert studies government and international relations at Smith College and attended Sciences Po as a visiting student. Her principal research interests are militarization and security and the humanitarian-development nexus. She worked at the UNESCO Chair on Youth Leadership in Science, Health, Gender, and Education in Kenya during the summer of 2019.
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Isabelle Vonèche Cardia has a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Paris X-Nanterre and a Master's Degree in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. An historian of the International Committee of the Red Cross, she published a book on the ICRC in Hungary in 1956. She also worked during five years for the ICRC and has consulted for the United Nations and international NGOs in Africa. Her thesis on the relations between the ICRC and the Swiss Government (1938-1945) has been published in 2012.
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Born in 1985, Anna Louédec worked in various NGOs in South Africa and Senegal in 2005 and 2007. A student at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris, she wants to specialize in development and humanitarian aid.
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Véronique Moufflet holds a Masters degree in anthropology from the EHSS (Ecoles des hautes études en sciences sociales) in Paris. She works on AIDS prevention and humanitarian action in Africa South of the Sahara, and she did research on local NGOs in Dakar, Senegal, and Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Graduated from Sciences Po Paris in 2005, Maria Gabrielsen worked on the North-South conflict in Sudan as a part of her Research Master in Political Science of International Relations, still at the Institute of political Sciences (IEP) in Paris. Before coming to Paris, she studied sociology and development in Oslo. During the fall semester 2004, she interned with an English-speaking newspaper in Cairo, Egypt. She also writes regularly for a norwegian weekly newspaper.
Sciences Po Joint PROJECT
Denis Ehrsam was born in 1978. Between 1997 and 2001, he studied translation at Paris VII University before entering Sciences Po in September 2001. There, he studied issues linked to development, humanitarian aid and to the activities of international organizations; this knowledge was used during an internship at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, in Bangkok, between October 2002 and February 2003.
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Elsa Bidron, born in 1979, studied at Sciences po and wrote a Masters' research paper in History about the relationship between the government and native Indian communities in the USA. During Summer 2002, she worked as a volunteer for Virlanie Foundation which provides a home and psychosocial care for streetchildren in Manila.
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David Richardson was born in 1981 in Oxford, England. Since 1989 he has lived in France, and has become a French citizen. After a degree in history, he joined Sciences-Po Paris in 2002. He’s interested in working one day in the field of humanitarian aid, hence his participation in this project.
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Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1980, Mariana Duarte has lived in France since 1997. She joined Sciences Po in Paris in 2000. In 2002, first in DC and then in Rio, she interned at CEJIL (Center for Justice and International Law), an NGO specialized in the interamerican human rights system. Her main academic focuses are international relations and development.
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Born in 1980, Franklin Exiga joined Sciences Po Paris in 2002. He also studied History and Geography at the University of Nanterre. He is interested in the role of states, multilateral organizations and NGOs in development. Thanks to his participation in this project, he could better understand the challenges of humanitarian action.