France Bourgouin

France Bourgouin

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Over the past fifteen years, France Bourgouin has managed research and advisory services projects on natural resource governance and policy. She has provided technical and strategic advice to governments, civil society, and the private sector primarily throughout eastern and southern Africa on issues of institutional and regulatory reform, revenue transparency, CSR, human rights, and development agreements, among other matters. She is currently directing research on the role of business in building sustainable communities and an inclusive economy focusing especially on local content and CSR practices.

She has lived in Africa for more than six years and has extensive field-based experience with a broad range of development issues focused on the governance of mineral, oil, and gas industries at the national, regional, and transnational levels. She has counselled The Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) on issues of financial integrity and transparency in the extractive industries. Through her work on frontier mining jurisdictions, she has also counselled the Government of Greenland on its mining policy reform process.

Publications

(forthcoming Dec 2014) - with Julia Panzer. Governing Uranium Supply Chains – Why Private Engagement is Needed. DIIS Policy Brief.

2014 “Climate Change : Implications for Extractive and Primary Industries : Key Findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report.” University of Cambridge.

With Marshall Chase. “Business Action for the Ethical Mining of Conflict Minerals.” BSR Working Paper. 2014. www.bsr.org/reports/BSR_Ethical_Mining_Conflict_Minerals.pdf.

“What Future for Artisanal Mining ? The Politics of FDI in the Mining Sector in Tanzania.” In D. F. Bryceson and J. B. Jønsson, eds. African Mining Take-off in Artisanal Mining and Social Change in Tanzania. Earthscan : London. 2013.

With J. Nem Singh (2013) (eds.) Extractive Industries Governance and Development in the Global South : Critical International Political Economy Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan IPE Series.

With J. Nem Singh (2013) “Resource governance and Developmental States in the Global South : An Introduction” in Nem Singh J. and F. Bourgouin (eds,) Extractive Industries Governance and Development in the Global South : Critical International Political Economy Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan IPE Series.

With H. Haarstad (2013) “From ‘Good Governance’ to the Contextual Politics of Extraction-based Development” in Nem Singh J. and F. Bourgouin (eds,) Extractive Industries Governance and Development in the Global South : Critical International Political Economy Perspectives.

2013. “What future for artisinal mining ? The politics of FDI in the mining sector in Tanzania” in Bryceson, D.F. and Jønsson, J.B. (eds.) African Mining Take-off in Artisinal Mining and Social Change in Tanzania”. Earthscan : London.

2012. “Transnational Capitalism in Johannesburg and the Formation of New Elite : An Ethnographic Perspective” in Abbink, J.and T. Salverda (eds.) Anthropology of Elites : Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Distinction. Palgrave-Macmillan : New York.

With L. Engbeg-Pedersen. “Pragmatic Aid Management Practices.” ReCom Danida. 2013. http://en.diis.dk/files/publications/Reports2013/RP2013-26_pragmatic-aid_Bourgouin-Engberg-pedersen_web.pdf.

With C. Vestergaard. “Should Greenland Mine Its Uranium ? The Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges of a Controversial Export.” DIIS Policy Brief. 2012. http://subweb.diis.dk/sw118858.asp.

2012 “On being cosmopolitan : lifestyle and identity of African finance professionals in Johannesburg”. Ethnos Vol 77 (1), pp. 50-71.

With Ole Therkildsen. “Continuity and Change in Tanzania’s Ruling Coalition : Legacies, Crises, and Weak Productive Capacity.” DIIS Working Paper : Elite Poverty and Productivity Series. 2012. http://subweb.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/WP2012/WP2012-06-Continuity-and-change-Tanzania_web.pdf.

“The Politics of Large-Scale Mining in Africa : Domestic Policy, Donors, and Global Economic Processes.” Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Vol. 111. No. 7., 2011, pp. 525-529.

“Des individualistes mondialisés ? Ruptures et discontinuités dans les familles d’élites africaines transnationales.” In E. Rozy and V. Baby-Colin, eds. Autrepart. No. 57/58. 2011. www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=27246100940270.

“A Missed Opportunity : Mining for Sustainable Development.” DIIS Policy Briefs. January 2011. www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/Policybriefs%202011/France%20Bourgouin%20pol%20brief%20small.pdf

2011. “The Politics of Large-scale mining in Africa : domestic policy, donors, and global economic processes”. Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Vol 111. no. 7. pp. 525-529.

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France Bourgouin

Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en développement international et société (CIRDIS)

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