I have 30 years of experience in research, policy, and investigative reporting. After several years in diplomacy, humanitarian work, and UN peacebuilding, I have collaborated with human rights and environmental organizations in parallel with a formal academic career, including more than a decade on the board of UBC’s Global Reporting Program. I am the (co)author of three non-fiction books and numerous pieces including articles, policy reports, and Op-eds. I speak English, French, and Spanish, and worked in Europe, MiddleEast, South America, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. My work has appeared in AP News, Christian Science Monitor, Die Zeit, Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Financial Times, National Post, Nature Sustainability, Mongabay, Science Advances, and Smithsonian Magazine.
Post-Doctoral UN World Institute for Development Economics Research (Helsinki) PhD Geography (Oxford) MBA (Paris I) MSc (Angers) BSc (Brest)
Features, policy, narrative non-fiction, radio. Topics: Armed conflicts, climate change, commodity markets, ecology, energy policy, environmental policy, fisheries, geopolitics, human rights, international development, maritime affairs, ocean governance, peacekeeping, post-conflict reconstruction, natural resource governance, supply chains, war economies, wildlife conservation.
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