Élise Dufief is a senior research fellow in the Governance for Sustainable Development programme. Her work focuses on development finance in the Global South, with a particular interest in the role of development banks, the governance of sustainable development and the implementation of the Agenda 2030. She is also involved in reforms processes on the international financial architecture for development and the future of international cooperation.
Élise holds a PhD in political science on contemporary Africa from EHESS and Northwestern University. She has worked and lived in Ethiopia, Mali, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Before joining IDDRI, Élise worked at the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs on European development policy and negotiated the EU external affairs budget for 2021-2027 (including the new set up of financial instruments for development, and mandate evolutions of the EIB and the EBRD), and in Mali on governance issues. She has also been research and monitoring lead on international aid transparency for an NGO in London.
Élise also teaches Masters students at Sciences Po PSIA and regularly lectures at the IEDES-Sorbonne and Le Havre University.
