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PhD-candidate and lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Within the scope of her PhD she conducted fieldwork in Guinea between 2011 and 2013. Her main concern is with questions of gender, statehood, transformations of the state, political articulations, and everyday life.
Contact: carole.ammann@unibas.ch

PhD candidate at the Laboratory for Transnational Studies (MAPS) at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. For his PhD, he has conducted research on transnational mobility in the context of artisanal gold mining in West-Africa (Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Sénégal). He has also been involved in other research projects dealing with questions of access to natural resources and transnational migrations.
Contact: matthieu.bolay@unine.ch

A Northwestern University graduate and a Fulbright alumnus, Dr. Mohamed Saliou Camara is Professor of History, International Relations, and Communication in the College of Arts & Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida. Previously he taught Philosophy at the University of Conakry and served as president of that University’s Press and associate chair of the Philosophy Department. He also served as a journalist for the National Radio Television of Guinea and a speech writer at the Presidential Press Bureau. Camara’s current research interest centers on the study of human security in Africa in the age of globalization. Camara is the author of several books on the political history of Guinea and West Africa.
Contact: Mohamed.Camara@erau.edu

holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and is currently a postdoc at the center for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research interests focus on the conjunction of people’s life trajectories and political transformation processes in West Africa and include analyses of intergenerational relations, life worlds of academics and migration patterns of highly qualified people.
Contact: michelle.engeler@unibas.ch

studied Sociology and International Development at the University of Vienna and holds a PhD in Global Studies from the Universities of Leipzig and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has done research in Guinea and Ghana and teaches courses on development sociology, global commodity chains and the sociopolitical implications of mining in Vienna, Leipzig and Munich.
Contact: johannes.knierzinger@univie.ac.at

agro-economist and a geographer (PhD thesis on local powers in Coastal Guinea). He mainly worked on local organizations in developing countries (India, Rwanda, Peru), particularly in Guinea where he has been developing for 12 years an approach based on the understanding of the decision-making processes at the local scale and has been focusing on approaches for the implementation of corporate social responsibility. He is Insuco’s Chief Executive Officer, an international consulting firm in social engineering. He is used to publish on issues relating to land tenure, natural resource management, decision-making processes and mining sector in South countries.
Contact: pascal.rey@insuco.com