Michaël Bourdon

Michaël Bourdon is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Center for International Studies (CERI) of Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on the transformations of the state, development, and elites correlated with the diffusion of the start-up entrepreneurship model in West Africa, specifically in Togo and Ghana. He is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris where he obtained a master's degree in Social Sciences. He is also an associate member of the project African Trust Infrastructure, led by Keith Breckenridge at Wits University in Johannesburg.