Hervé Pennec – Historian
Hervé Pennec is a historian and senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He was a member of the Institut des...
Category: Researchers
Adriana Blache – Deputy Director
Adriana Blache is a geographer who conducted her doctoral research on land grabs, nature conservation, and large-scale agricultural investments in Tanzania, Kilombero Valley. At...
Sylvain Racaud – IFRA Director
Sylvain Racaud is Director of IFRA-Nairobi from March 2025. He is on secondment from Bordeaux-Montaigne University, where he has been a senior lecturer in geography...
IFRA New Researcher
Henri Médard, a professor of African history at Aix-Marseille University (AMU) and the Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF), has joined IFRA on a one- or...
Clélia Coret – Former Director (2022-2024)
Clélia Coret is a Historian and specialist of East Africa and the Swahili coast in the 19th and 20th centuries. She holds a PhD in Contemporary History...
Clément Dulac – Intern 2022
Clément Dulac is a Master’s student in Development Studies at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He will be an intern at IFRA from June to end...
Francesca di Matteo – Researcher and Deputy Director
Francesca Di Matteo holds a PhD in Political Anthropology (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Scieces Sociale, Marseille) while her previous academic training was in Politics...
Elisa Crestani Befve – Intern 2021
Elisa Crestani Befve was a third-year student at Sciences Po Paris, in the Europe-Africa program in 2021. As IFRA’s intern from September to December 2021,...
Marie-Aude Fouéré – 2018-22
Marie-Aude Fouéré is a Social and Political Anthropologist researching on collective memories and the uses of the past; ethnicity, nation and race; African socialism and revolution....
Chloé Josse-Durand – 2016-2021
Chloé Josse-Durand was IFRA’s Resident Researcher and Deputy Director from February 2016 to August 2021. She is a political scientist. She pursued her PhD at...
