I am a socio-cultural anthropologist conducting research on global extractive systems and supply chain sustainability. I currently hold a postdoctoral fellowship at the Colorado School of Mines and earned my PhD from the University of British Columbia. I also completed masters degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS - MA anthropology), University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne (LLM African Legal Studies), Stanford University (MA African Studies), and Sciences Po Lyon (MA International Relations). My doctoral research focused on the extraction of cobalt by artisanal miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I am interested in the integration of these miners in global supply chains and the development of responsible sourcing programs by downstream companies. Combining a legal and economic approach, I explore the frictions that these capitalistic projects entail and question the role of neoliberal market incentives in requiring sustainable and responsible sourcing. In particular, I raise the issue of the continuation of colonial logics of extractivism and the persistence of imperial debris in the practices of corporations in the cobalt sector.

Recently, I am broadening the scope of my research to include the extractive dynamics of the green transition, and in particular the opening of new frontiers, including deep sea mining and space mining. More and more interested in collaborative and cross-disciplinary research, I engage with a series of scholars from social and STEM sciences. These collaborations include the study of China’s critical minerals policies, the role of artificial intelligence in environmental, social, and governance practice, and the conceptualization of green transition policies as integral to the reproduction of racial and economic inequalities. More recently my research has focused on the development of critical minerals supplies from within the United States and the socio-economic perspective of processes of remining and reprocessing.

Outside of the academic world, I am the Minerals Program Associate at Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) and regularly consult for international organizations (OECD, EU Commission, UNDP).