Folashade Soule folashade.soulekohndou@sciencespo.fr f.soule-kohndou@lse.ac.uk Career Profile Post-doctoral researcher and policy adviser with broad-ranging expertise in research, policy advising and teaching. Able to work both as a supportive team member and independently. Extensive experience in research design and analysis, research project managing, writing reports and knowledge transfer. Able to quickly assimilate information, summarise and draw conclusions. Confident presenting to both academic and non-academic audiences. Key Skills and Achievements Communication Disseminating research results at national and international meetings for academic and non-academic public (up to 500 people) Organizing and disseminating skills through training events Preparing weekly/monthly/ annual progress reports Publishing scientific papers in high-quality peer-reviewed journals Teaching and demonstrating at undergraduate and graduate practical and tutorial sessions Research and Analysis Gathering and assimilating information from published sources to write review documents Identifying appropriate research questions and designing empirical workplan to test hypotheses Selecting and generating data through empirical research and analysing using appropriate analytical tools Project Management Selecting project proposals according to the organisation s priorities and requirements Follow-up of implementation process Reviewing of project and assessment to fulfil objectives within tight deadlines Interpersonal skills Collaborating with colleagues from multicultural backgrounds to develop new projects Supporting the development of team members through assisting with their professional training to ensure competence.
EDUCATION PhD degree in Political science (summa cum laude), Sciences Po Paris (Oct 2009 - May 2014) Master s degree in Political Science (magna cum laude) Sciences Po Paris (awarded on 3 July 2009) ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH TRACK RECORD RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS Post-doctoral Fellowship, Africa International Affairs Programme, London School of Economics London (April - Oct 2015) Researched on politics negotiation tactics and strategies by west African governments while dealing with south-south cooperation flows from rising donors (supervised by Prof Chris Alden) Analyzed the relationships and processes that make up new donor-recipient relations in francophone West Africa Conducted empirical work in West francophone Africa (collect data, lead interviews in order to provide a comparative approach) Produced an extensive research paper and a policy brief presenting the results for the benefits of the LSE Africa International Affairs Programme and the Global South Unit Visiting PhD fellow, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation New York, USA (November 2011 February 2012) Collected data on the different development projects set up by the (IBSA) Fund and managed by the special unit for South-South cooperation. Lead interviews with the IBSA high-level officials to get their understanding of South-South development cooperation and IBSA political concertation in the UN Security Council Visiting PhD fellow, Instituto Rio Branco (IRBr) Brasilia, Brazil (April-June 2011) Field research internship at the diplomatic academy of Brazil for PhD fieldwork Observed and analysed the diplomatic environment and collect data on IBSA, BRICS matters Lead interviews to understand the Brazilian perspective of southern coalition-building and the fostering of South-South cooperation through the IBSA dialogue forum Attended high-level policy conferences organized by the institute Page 2
Visiting PhD Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) New Delhi, India (January 2011 March 2011) Field research mission at the Research and Information system for developing countries (think tank affiliated to the Ministry of External Affairs) Collected data and lead interviews to understand the Indian perspective of southern coalition-building and strategic aims of South-South cooperation (IBSA-BRICS) Visiting PhD Fellow, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) Johannesburg, South Africa (September 2010 November 2010) Collected data and presented communication on PhD findings after the field mission Lead interviews to understand the South African perspective of southern coalition-building and strategic aims of the IBSA forum. PUBLICATIONS MONOGRAPHS Puissances émergentes et Multilatéralisme: le cas de l Afrique du Sud (1999-2008) - Analyse des stratégies d une puissance émergente, (2010) Préface de Bertrand Badie, editions l Harmattan, Collection Etudes africaines, 176 p. Book review by Thierry Vircoulon, in Afrique Contemporaine, No. 235, 2010/3, pp.144-146. CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS Analyse de la Résolution 418 (embargo on South Africa) (2012) in Les grandes résolutions du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies, Editions Dalloz, pp. 91-100. L Afrique du Sud, une puissance entre émergence économique et diplomatique (2011) in L Afrique des nouvelles convoitises, Editions Ellipses, pp. 109-116. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Les émergents du Sud face à la gouvernance mondiale de l aide au développement: stratégies réformatrices, concurrences et tâtonnements (2015), Foro Internacional, (coauthord with Dr Isaline Bergamaschi, under publication) Les usages de l action culturelle sud-sud du Brésil à travers les clubs d émergents (2015), Cahier des Amériques Latines, 78, vol.1 (under press) L Afrique du Sud dans la relation BRICS-Afrique (2013), Afrique contemporaine, No. 248, vol.4. Histoire des relations sud-sud contemporaines: contours d une évolution graduelle (2013), Afrique contemporaine, n 248, vol.4 Page 3
JOURNAL ARTICLES IBAS, BRICS, les nouveaux clubs du Sud (2014) in Carto, No. 22, avril-mai, p.56. Forums d émergents et multilatéralisme: le cas du forum Inde-Brésil-Afrique du Sud (2012), Perspectives Internationales, No. 2, p. 135-145. L activisme du Brésil au sein des forums d émergents (2012), Questions Internationales, No. 55 Coopération sud-sud et lutte contre la pauvreté (2012), CERISCOPE Pauvreté POLICY OUTREACH CONTRIBUTIONS South Africa competing with the other BRICs in Africa (2014), Great Insights, ECDPM, No. 4, vol.3 The India Brazil South Africa (IBSA) dialogue forum, a decade on mismatched partners or the rise of the South? (2013), Global Economic Governance Programme Working Paper, No. 88, University of Oxford IBSA, BRICS: l intégration des pays émergents par les clubs? (2011), Centre d Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, CERI Sciences Po/ CNRS COMMUNICATIONS AND RESEARCH DISSEMINATION COMMUNICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES South-South development funds: tools for soft-revisionism in International Development?, International Conference on Capital, Labour and South-South Development, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 9-11 October 2015 Emerging middle powers and club diplomacy: functions and limits of an exclusive diplomacy - Panel Is Diplomacy of Concert weakened by the risk of exclusion?, European International Studies Association, (EISA) congress, (8 th edition) Warsaw, Poland 21 September 2013. Le rôle des forums IBAS et BRICS dans la diplomatie d émergent de l Inde, Section Thématique 48, Les diplomaties des pays émergents, 12 th congres, l Association Française de Science Politique, AFSP, Paris, 10 July 2013. Reforming the United Nations Security Council from within: the strategies of India, Brazil and South Africa through the IBSA forum Joint Seminar Beyond the BRICs metaphor. Making Sense of Non-Western Powers, Oxford-Sciences Po (OXPO) Workshop, Oxford University 16-17 May 2012. Emerging middle powers groupings in global governance: the case of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) forum in the United Nations, Panel Southern States and United Nations Multilateralism, International Studies Association (ISA) congress, Montréal, Canada, 17 Mach 2011. The emergence of IBSA and its role in shaping global governance: perspectives from South Africa, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 4 November 2010. Page 4
WORKSHOPS, REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS L action des émergents dans la résolution des crises et conflits en Afrique de l Ouest, Joint conference Analyse de la sécurité régionale: acteurs et enjeux, Ecole Militaire Interarmes (EMIA), Ecole Nationale d Administration et de la Magistrature, (ENAM), University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali, 17 April 2015 The new international finance architecture for development, International Relations lecture series, Regent s University London, London, 23 April 2015. Expressions de la puissance au 21 ème siècle les émergents, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l Ecole Militaire, IRSEM; Institut Jean Lecanuet, Paris, 13 April 2015. Les postures internationales des BRICS, Seminar Les BRICS en questions, Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale, IHEDN, Paris, 7 October 2013. Les clubs d émergents dans la politique étrangère de l Afrique du Sud, Joint Working group between Sciences Po and the Prospective division of the French Ministry of External Affairs Les diplomaties des pays émergents CAPS-MAE / CERI-Sciences Po Paris, Paris, 16 May 2012. Les dynamiques d intervention extérieure en Afrique australe, Research Atelier, Perspectives stratégiques en Afrique, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l Ecole Militaire, IRSEM, Paris, 12 January 2012. Quelle émergence pour l Afrique du Sud? L émergence comme statut ambivalent, workshop L émergence: phénomène stratégique, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l Ecole Militaire, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l Ecole Militaire, IRSEM, Paris, 6 October 2011. OUTREACH DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH (Newspaper articles, radio talks, policy dialogues, E-newsletters) La dénonciation des conflits et la prudence: l équation des pays émergents in L ONU, seule solution au chaos du monde, L Humanité, 21 August 2014. La banque des BRICS ou comment concurrencer le FMI, Europe 1, 15 July 2014. L Afrique du Sud vote sans Mandela, La Croix, 07 May 2014. L Afrique du Sud, un intrus parmi les BRICS, Sciences Po Executive Education conference, Sciences Po, Campus de Reims, in partnership with the Champagne-Ardennes region, 17 April 2014. BRICS countries central banks rise their interest rate, radio podcast BBC Afrique, Dakar, 30 January 2014. Les fonds multilatéraux sud-sud: acteurs, objectifs et stratégies, Rencontres de la Prospective, Agence Française de Développement (French Development AgencyAFD), Paris, 12 September 2013 L âge d or des BRICS est-il fini? L œil de la rédaction, TV5 Monde, 17 August 2013. Audition by the Foreign Affairs Commission of the French National Assembly Mission d information No. 1535, Les émergents de l Afrique anglophone, ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE (French National Assembly), Paris, 5 June 2013. Les pays des BRICS: de la force économique à un désir d influence diplomatique, L œil de la rédaction, TV5 Monde, March 2012. Page 5
IBSA, BRICS: l intégration des pays émergents par les clubs? Le Monde, May 2011, (article published on the website of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Inde-Brésil-Afrique du Sud: Santé, agriculture, des projets communs, Le Monde Diplomatique, March 2011. L Afrique du Sud, les BRICS et les politiques anti-dumping, radio talk BBC Africa, 15 May 2012. Quelle place pour les émergents dans le monde? radio talk Géopolitique le débat (Marie- France Chatin), Radio France Internationale (RFI), 29 June 2011. Emergences: le basculement du monde? Festival de Géopolitique et Géo-économie, Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM), 27 March 2011. ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES Co-organisation and scientific coordination of an international workshop on South Africa, 20 years after apartheid CERI Sciences Po Paris (April 2014) funded by l Institut Français d Afrique du Sud (IFAS), CERI-Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA Sciences Po) and the Doctoral School of Sciences Po Paris SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS CNRS Scholarship Award 2009 2012 3-year PhD scholarship awarded by the National French Council of Scientific Research (62,000 Euros Field Research Grants January 2011 June 2011 Field research grant for field trip to Brazil awarded by the Institut des Amériques and REFEB (Réseau des Etudes Françaises au Brésil (1,000 and 3,000 Euros) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND RESEARCH NETWORKS Research Associate, Global Economic Governance Programme Blavatnik School of Government, Université d Oxford, Royaume-Uni (since 2013) Groupe de Recherche sur l Action Multilatérale de l Association Française de Science Politique (GRAM / AFSP), Axe n 3 - «Les Suds et le multilatéralisme» Association Française de Science Politique (AFSP) (since 2013) International Studies Association (ISA) European International Studies Association (EISA) Development Studies Association (DSA) Page 6
TEACHING, SUPERVISING AND MENTORING ACTIVITIES I have provided tutorial and mentoring sessions for courses in International students at the National University of Benin and the University of Bamako (Mali). I have also provided lectureships in Politics of International development, Institutions of International development, and International politics of sustainable development and the environment (Prof Ian Goldin, Oxford University; Prof Laurence Tubiana, Sciences Po Paris; and Prof Jean Jacques Gabas, Sciences Po, Paris). I provided these sessions to classes between 30 and 100 students, 2-4 hrs per week, requiring a prior-assessment of course curriculum, development of suitable resources in collaboration with lead professors, organisation and delivery of sessions and course work making. She also provided research methodology, map-making skills and reviewed 3 series of work assignments per student. I have also acted as a discussant for the Masters thesis of students in International affairs and International strategy at the Ecoles de St-Cyr Coëtquidan and Université Paris 13 - Paris Sorbonne Cité. Overview of Teaching activities Course Level and Type Year Duration INSTITUT CATHOLIQUE DE PARIS FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ECONOMICS Régimes Politiques Comparés Bachelor 2015-2016 2 x 18 hours Théories et Sociologie des Relations Internationales Bachelor 2015-2016 2 x 18 hours Enjeux Internationaux Contemporains Bachelor 2015-2016 21 hours UNIVERSITE PARIS 13 MASTER INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND NGOs Théories et Pratiques de la Coopération Internationale Masters 2015-2016 21 hours SCIENCES PO - UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE / MASTERS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Espace Mondial Bachelor 2012-2013 24 hours Institutions et Politiques du Développement Masters 2011-2012 24 hours Economics of International Development Masters 2011-2012 24 hours International Politics of Sustainable development and the Environment Masters 2011-2012 24 hours SCIENCES PO PARIS EUROPE-AFRICA PROGRAMME African strategies in International Politics Bachelor 2015-2016 24 hours INALCO MASTER INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Cultures stratégiques: cas d'étude Afrique Masters 2014-2015 20 hours Page 7
POLICY ADVISORY EXPERIENCE Global Relations and Engagement Consultant, OECD and French Development Bank agency (AFD) (2013-2014) Co-produced a litterature review and survey analysis report based on responses from 73 countries' involvement in south-south/triangular development cooperation between OECD donors, emerging powers and developing countries for the DCD-DAC. Provided research and advisory on enhancing relations between selected OECD key partners (India,Brazil, South Africa) and the OECD at the Global Relations Secretariat Monitored key political and economic developments in Subsaharan Africa and selected African countries and its implications for the OECD. Arranged meetings for General Secretariat and Global Relations Secretariat advisors in selected OECD key partners (India, South Africa), draft talking points and briefing notes. Provided advice to the French Development Agency on ways to establish triangular development partnerships with South Africa, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey, China and Brazil Organisation and animation of internal workshops and drafted an internal report with strategic recommendations Programme associate, European Commission delegation, Yaounde, Cameroon (2010) Masters internship Development projects assistant Follow-up of bilateral and regional cooperation agreements in agriculture, environment, governance, gender and human rights between the EU and the government and civil society associations in Cameroon Followy-up of field projects in rural areas (agriculture) Programme specialist assistant, United Nations Economic and Scientific Cooperation Organization, Paris, France (UNESCO)(2008) Internship at the Bureau of Strategic Planning (BSP) / Division for Gender Equality Help monitor gender inclusiveness in the UNESCO development projects Write summaries of the sessions of the 34th General Assembly Page 8