Deborah Alimi is a researcher in international relations, focused on governance, international development, and international strategies and policies regarding transnational organised crime and illicit practices.

A member of the European Center for Sociology and Political Science, she is pursuing a PhD in Political Science at Sorbonne. She analyses the evolutions and strategic reformulations of international drug policy and agenda.

Prior to her PhD, Deborah served as Policy Analyst in the OECD’s Network on Governance (GOVNET), focusing on anti-corruption and accountability. Before that, she was a research assistant on democratic governance and human rights issues for organisations such as UNPD and the Washington–based Centre for Development and Population Activities.

A French native, Deborah holds an MA in Democracy and Governance from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., as well as a Maîtrise in Political Science from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. She speaks English and Spanish, and has some knowledge of Russian. Deborah is based in Paris.

Franco-Singaporean Juana de Catheu is a governance and security advisor, with 17 years of experience designing, implementing and evaluating programmes in transition contexts.

She founded Development Results in 2013, and is a Senior Conflict & Stabilisation Advisor for the UK Stabilisation Unit.

She is former coordinator of the €200m/year French Peace and Resilience Fund "Minka" at Agence française de Développement (2017-19). Previously, she was Team Leader of the OECD International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF) and DAC focal point on responsible supply chains of minerals (2007-2013). Before that, she assisted the DR Congo government in demobilising and reintegrating 150,000 combatants, including 30,000 children; and the government of Aceh (Indonesia) in implementing the Aceh peace agreement (2004-2006). Prior, she was a Conflict Specialist at the World Bank, where she received three awards for the design and implementation of recovery programmes in Indonesia and DR Congo, and her analysis of the conflict in Burundi, with US Special Envoy Ambassador Wolpe (2001-04).

A native French and English speaker, she holds an MA from Sciences Po Paris, an MBA from ESSEC Business School and an MSc in Foreign Service from Georgetown University (Fulbright). Juana is based in Paris.

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Ed Rackley is a security and governance adviser to leading multilateral and bilateral institutions (World Bank, UN, DFID, USAID...), as well as INGOs (MSF), with over 20 years living and working in conflict-related emergencies and fragile states, notably in the Horn, Great Lakes, Sahel and West Africa. He also has programming and research experience in LAC, Balkans and SE Asian transitional contexts. In 2008 he co-founded Prism Partnerships in Nairobi to support community-led reconstruction initiatives in conflict-affected areas of East and Central Africa. He speaks English, French, Kikongo and Lingala.

He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in political philosophy from the New School for Social Research, New York. His doctoral dissertation addressed the moral logic of humanitarian intervention, a critique of the humanitarian presumption that inaction before human atrocity amounts to complicity.

He is a contributing author and co-editor of Catastrophe: Law, Politics and the Humanitarian Impulse (2009) and RD Congo: Silence, On Meurt (2002), and has published in Disasters, Multitudes, The Christian Science Monitor, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Sustainable Security, and 3QuarksDaily. Ed is based in Tunis.

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Colin Scott is a Development Finance specialist, with over 30 of experience with development banks, UN agencies and international NGOs.

Until 2015, he was Lead Specialist in the Operations Risk Management team of the World Bank’s policy and country services vice presidency, where he specialised in environmental and social safeguards and was task leader of the Bank’s corporate review of safeguard policies. Prior to that he spent seven years in the Bank’s Middle East and North Africa region specialising in conflict-affected and fragile states, and leading the team producing a regional study, “Reducing Conflict Risk”. Prior, starting in 1996, he worked on social risk, conflict and development at the World Bank including six years as administrator of the Bank’s Post Conflict Fund.

Previously, he was a policy and communications consultant working on conflict and development issues for NGOs, UN agencies and independent institutions such as the Humanitarianism and War Project at Brown University. He served as senior press officer with Save the Children UK and managed its assistance programs in Mali, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Prior to that he worked in local government and the voluntary sector in the UK in social welfare policy, services and communications.

He has an MSc. in International Relations, an LLB in law, and a professional qualification in social work. Colin is based in Washington, DC.

Bertille Kerouault is a junior researcher focused on international organisations promoting inclusive development in emerging economies.

 

A former research assistant for the NGO Data Pop Alliance (intern), she engaged with UN agencies and the World Bank (e.g. UNDP Haiti, World Bank Crisis & Disaster Risk Finance) and co-authored multidimensional economic, social and political country analyses.

 

A native French speaker, she is fluent in English and Spanish. She is a graduate of the Collège Universitaire of Sciences Po Paris, majoring in Economy and Society, including an exchange programme with Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires focusing on the Argentine political economy. Bertille is based in Paris.