Institute of Research and Debate on Governance

THE ADVISORY BOARD

Pascal Delisle

President

Pascal Delisle is the head of the Higher Education Office and coordinator of the cultural services at the French Embassy in Washington DC. He was previously the director of the Center of the Americas at Sciences Po in Paris. From 2002 to 2004, he was a visiting professor at Columbia University where he founded the Alliance Program, a joint venture between Columbia University, Science Po, Ecole Polytechnique and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Formerly, Pascal Delisle held several faculty positions in France, Colombia and at Georgetown University, publishing articles and book chapters on Environmental Economics, European policy and more recently on Higher Education and Research Policy. A native of France, Pascal Delisle holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. He is a graduate from Sciences Po and from Ecole Normale Supérieure

Ousmane Sy

Vice president

Ousmane Sy (1949) is a Doctor of social and economic Development. From 1987 to 1993 he was charged with the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) programme in Mali and from 1993-2000, was charged with piloting ‘the decentralisation and institutional reform programme’ by the then democratic authority in Mali. In 2000, he entered government as the minister of Territorial administration and of local authorities, which enabled him to bring his technical knowledge into practice. He was also charged with the organisation of the 2002 Presidential elections. He has, in addition, created his own advisory body, the CEPIA or ‘Centre of Political and institutional policy Expertise in Africa’.

Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra

Secrétaire

Larbi Bougarra is an associated professor at the International Francophone University of Alexandria in the department of environmental management, an expert in toxic products and pesticides at the WHO and an ex professor at the University of Tunis, his activities as a teacher and researcher cover specifically chemistry and the environment. He has led a reflection on the role of science in countries of the south. Some of his most recent works include La pollution invisible (PUF, 1997), Les batailles de l’ eau (Edition Charles Léopold Mayer, 2003), La consommation assassine (Edition Charles Léopold Mayer, 2005).

Bérengère Quincy

Treasurer

Diplômée de Sciences-Po Paris (1971) licence ès sciences économiques (1972) et ancienne élève de l’Ecole Nationale d’administration. B.Quincy entre au Ministère des affaires étrangères (MAE) en 1978 . Son parcours au sein du MAE l’amène à aborder des thématiques aussi diverses que la construction européenne, l’environnement (chef du service des affaires internationales au Ministère de l’Environnement, 1992-1995), la sécurité (directrice des affaires stratégiques et internationales au Secrétariat général de la Défense Nationale, 1996-1998), l’ONU (ambassadrice, représentante permanente de la France à Vienne auprès de l’Office des Nations unies et de l’AIEA, l’OTICE, et l’ONUDI -1998-2001) et l’aide au développement (directrice du développement et de la coopération technique, 2004-2005).

Albert Chen Lichuan

Albert Chen Lichuan was head of Department of French Literature at the University of Beijing where he spent 7 years of study (1978-1985). A French government scholar from 1986-1989, he pursued his research at the Ecole en Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris under the direction of Louis Martin and obtained the diploma of further studies in the Science of Language (1988). After six years working for the French state as a Lecturer in Chinese at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris (1989-1995) he involved himself in journalism as a reporter for the Chinese Television Network (Hong Kong), the Power TV Network (Taiwan) and as a special reporter for CTITV (Taiwan). He is currently a reporter and editor of the review Transcultural Dialogue (China), a central point of the Culturemedia association and of the Work pole on governance in China.

THE EXECUTIVE TEAM

Michel Sauquet

Director

Michel Sauquet is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences-po) and a doctor in applied economics. He has spent the large part of his professional career, since the beginning of the 1970s in the areas of international cooperation, intercultural dialogue and communication for development notably in Africa and Latin America for various NGOs, international organisations and for the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation. Vice-President of the Alliance of Independent publishers, he is currently a teacher at Sciences-po and the author of around fifteen published books.

email : michel.sauquet (@) institut-gouvernance.org

Tel : +33(0)1 43 14 75 73

Martin Vielajus

deputy director

Martin Vielajus is a graduate of the International Affairs Masters of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences-po). Until October 2006 he assumed a parallel function to that at the IRG, as a part of the teaching executive at Sciences-po. His main fields of study are the forms and modes of action of civil society actors, and the perceptions of governance criteria in the different cooperation policies. The intercultural orientation on the IRG follows his experience at UNESCO and in several cultural institutions.

email : martin.vielajus (@)institut-gouvernance.org

Tel : +33(0)1 43 14 75 86

Séverine Bellina

General secretary

Séverine Bellina is a Doctor of Public Administration, specialised on governance, institutionalization of power and normative pluralism in Africa. She is currently General secretary of the Institute for Research and Debate on Governance. From December 2004 to March 2008 she acted as a consultant on issues of democratic governance with the Directorate of Development Policy of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs - France - and has actively contributed to the drafting of the French strategy for governance development cooperation. She has also been an expert partner in the Democratic Governance Group Bureau for Development Policy Program United Nations Development (UNDP-BDP), stationed in Dakar and Regional Center in Oslo on governance with the Director. Séverine Bellina has served as consultant to the European Commission. She is a teacher at SciencePo Paris.

Claire Launay-Gama

FLAG* co-manager in Bogotá

Rita Savelis

Logistics Assistant

Rita Savelis studied at the University of California at Berkeley before coming to France where she works as logistics coordinator for IRG.

Thomas WEISS

Webmaster / Publication Officer