Our Team

Etienne Bourel holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France), specialising in labour and environmental issues. He has over 20 years of experience in qualitative social sciences, with expertise in politics, work and sustainability.

Before joining the Insuco Group, he held a post-doctoral position at Leiden University (The Netherlands), conducting research as part of the “The Social Life of Ogooué-Ivindo Forests” project. His experience includes ethnographic fieldwork, team management and teaching, through which he developed expertise in social issues in Central Africa.

As Director of IFSRA, Insuco’s research institute, he is committed to designing scientific and training programmes with current and new academic partners across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cécile is a research fellow at IFSRA. She is preparing a doctoral research project on climate migration in West Africa. She holds an LLM in public international law, during which she wrote a dissertation on environmental impact studies in the context of hydrocarbon development. She then became involved in the defense of indigenous rights in Canada. During her last functions as a project manager for INSUCO, she became more interested in themes surrounding the protection of refugees.

Holder of Masters II in International Affairs, International Law and Political Sciences (ILERI, Grenoble II and Paris X), Marco has a professional background that allowed him to evolve in the private sector, the public sector, NGOs and the social and solidarity economy sector. Marco worked in Latin America for 10 years  and more recently in Africa with experiences in various NGOs in the Central African Republic and Burkina Faso in particular. Specialist in risk management, territorial development and economic recovery with missions in more than 20 countries, working in a multicultural context is obvious to him.

Saïdou is the administrative and financial manager of Insuco in Burkina Faso. He holds two master’s degrees: one in finance, accounting and audit and another in economics, company management and organization from the University of Ouagadougou. He has worked for mining companies as well as audit firms where he was an auditor. He was team leader for statutory audits for mining and mobile phone companies as well as for development projects in Burkina Faso.