EXPERIENCE
Refugees International
Senior Fellow (2022-Present)
Senior Advocate for West and Central Africa (2019-2022)
Advocate for Sub-Saharan African and Peacekeeping (2017-2019)
Université de Montréal
Researcher & Teaching Assistant (2022-Present)
iMMAP
Humanitarian Data Expert (2021)
IMPACT Initiatives
AGORA Project Lead, Central African Republic (2017)
REACH Assessment Officer, Chad (2016-2017)
Act for the Disappeared
Research and Communications, Lebanon (2016)
Concordis International
Project Officer for Mauritania and Côte d’Ivoire (2013-2014)
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Immigration Clerk: United States of America and the United Kingdom (2007, 2010 & 2011)
FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- Chad (2016-2017, 2022, 2025)
- Central African Republic (2017, 2018)
- Burkina Faso (2019, 2022)
- Mali (2019)
- Cameroon (2019)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018)
- Palestine (2018)
- Nigeria (2018)
- Lebanon (2015-2016)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science, ongoing
Dissertation: Civilian Responses to Repression in the Central African Republic
Université de Montréal
M.A. in Conflict, Security, and Development, 2015
University of Sussex
B.S.Sc. in Conflict Studies and Human Rights, 2013
University of Ottawa
AFFILIATIONS
Emerging Scholar, Network for Strategic Analysis/Réseau d’analyse stratégique
Senior Fellow, Refugees International
AWARDS
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Doctoral Fellowship 2025-2027
Bourse de la Montagne Université de Montréal 2024-2025
Gérard-Boismenu bursary in comparative politics
Université de Montréal 2022
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
En République centrafricaine, tous les citoyens ne sont pas égaux dans l’isoloir La Conversation, September 2025.
Le mirage de la transition démocratique au Tchad Le Rubicon, May 2023
Climate-fueled Violence and Displacement in the Lake Chad Basin: Focus on Chad and Cameroon
Refugees International, January 2023
Refugees International, September 2022
Alexandra Lamarche 