Staff | France Bourgouin
Manager, Advisory Services | Copenhagen
As part of the Local Sustainable Performance team, France supports BSR’s industry-wide consulting services in the energy and mining sectors in the EMEA region. She has regional expertise in sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Arctic—having worked in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Greenland, and Nunavut, Canada—focusing on issues of strategic community development, stakeholder engagement, political risk, and institutional and regulatory reform. France also contributes to BSR’s research efforts and is currently participating on a collaborative research project on the governance of the global uranium industry.
Prior to BSR, she was a project researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen. Through her research, she has provided mineral governance and related advice to companies, governments, and civil society. She has also conducted extensive research work in the region on policy liberalization of the extractives sector, multinational corporation-artisanal mining relations, socio-economic impacts of mining development, cross-sector collaboration, and local procurement.
She is co-editor and participating author of Resource Governance and Developmental States: Critical International Political Economy Perspectives, due to appear later in 2013.
With a background in economics, France holds a Ph.D. in political anthropology, which she completed in cooperation between EHESS in Paris and Lund University, Sweden. She was a lecturer at the Gordon Institute for Business Sciences in Johannesburg on corporate training programs and an external lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris.
France is fluent in English and French.
Expertise
Business-state relations, local economic development, community relations, policy and institutional reform, stakeholder engagement, mining and extractives.
