Jacques graduated in Engineering (Québec), in Spanish (Malaga), in Business Administration (MBA - Paris) and in Economics (Ph. D.- London School of Economics). After five years in Europe, two years in Latin America and twelve years in Canada, he has been assisting African countries for more than fifteen years in the formulation and implementation of effective science, technology, innovation and knowledge strategies and policies for revealing a distinctive style of modernity in the African region. He has acquired a good experience in international programmes implementation and projects management as well as extensive global experience and understanding of cultures and history through self-studies, wide-ranging readings and travel in 123 countries. He has also some knowledge of Amharic and an awareness Ethiopian issues and challenges (20 years of residence and married to an Ethiopian).

His interest is in engaging the African scientific community with radical strategic thinking and in shaping a new science, technology and innovation (STI) narrative for capacity building and for uncovering the immense African potential for an original mode of modernity, through subversion, disenchantment and rationalization of pre-modern knowledge and beliefs systems, and through building robust STI systems rooted on solid foundations. The central question addressed is: ‘What mental or intellectual costume Africans need to wear in order to graduate into any form of modernity?”

Jacques is also interested in integrating climate change issues and concerns into STI policies.

More in my Website:
http://sites.google.com/site/revealingmodernityinafrica

Some recent thinking in this unpublished Paper: http://sites.google.com/site/revealingmodernityinafrica/newpaper

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