I hold a PhD in political science. I am a specialist of the sociology public policies in the global South, with a focus on social and family policies in East and Southern Africa. My PhD, conducted at the Centre for International Studies (Sciences Po) focused on the emergence of cash transfer programmes as social protection and poverty reduction policies in Namibia and Uganda. I studied in particular the dynamics of appropriation of a travelling model as a national public policy, its translation into bureaucratic institutions responsible for its implementation, and the forms of domination, social stratification and State-citizens relations that these processes (re)produce.

Since June 2025, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) withing the FamilEA project, which investigates through an interdisciplinary approach the dynamics of family transformations in East Africa. In particular, I study family law and policies in Uganda and Kenya and their effects on contemporary family practices. I also taught at Sciences Po Paris, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Sciences Po Strasbourg.

Discipliner les pauvres par les politiques de transferts monétaires : domination, intermédiations et rapports à l'État en Namibie et en Ouganda, supervised by Richard Banégas and Philippe Bezès

2022. « Les cash transfers à l’épreuve de l’intermédiation administrative en Ouganda : rapports de domination et policy feedbacks dans la mise en œuvre d’un programme de pensions », Revue internationale des études du développement, no. 248, pp. 87-113. 

2022. (avec Camille Abescat, Pablo Barnier-Khawam, Alix Chaplain, Léonard Colomba-Petteng, Claire Duboscq, Elisabeth Miljkovic, Sophie Russo, Jusmeet S. Sihra et Anaëlle Vergonjeanne), « Terrains « sans contact » : réflexions sur l’enquête qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandémie », Tracés, no. 42, pp. 75-93. 

2023. « Un clientélisme de façade : logiques d’action publique et intérêts clientélaires dans un programme de pensions en Ouganda », Revue internationale de politique comparée, vol. 30, no. 3-4, pp. 111-141. 

2024. « Fardeau administratif et gouvernement des mères pauvres. Une enquête au guichet des child grants en Namibie », Cahiers du genre, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 59-90. 

2024. “Paternalist street-level bureaucrats and virtuous recipients: the consequences of institutional weakness in a pensions programme in Uganda” in Rik Peeters, Gabriela Lotta & Fernando Nieto-Morales (ed.), Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions: The Everyday Experience of the State from a Global Perspective, Bristol, Bristol University Press (Policy Press), pp. 43-60.