Prénom de l'expert

François

Nom de l'expert

GAULME

Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Ifri

Research Areas:

France’s and UK’s African policy
Security and Development; integrated approach
International aid mechanisms
Historical anthropology
Gabon, Congo- Brazzaville, Central and Western Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa Center

François Gaulme, an anthropologist and historian by training, is an Associate Research Fellow at Ifri’s Sub-Saharan Africa Center. A former Editor of the weekly Marchés tropicaux and the quarterly Afrique contemporaine, he lectured on Africa at the Institut d’études politiques, at the Catholic University of Paris, and at the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan National Military Academy.

He recently retired from service at the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he specialized in situations of conflicts and of State fragility. His publications include Le Gabon et son ombre [Gabon and its Shadow] (Paris, Karthala, 1988).

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