Adrien Absolu
Health & Social Welfare Project Manager
Agence française de développement (AFD)
Overview
For the past five years, Adrien Absolu has been heading up a range of projects funded by AFD in the healthcare products sector: construction of a new medicine purchasing centre in the Palestinian Territories, deployment of a new manufacturing unit for yellow fever vaccines in liaison with Institut Pasteur in Dakar, support for research into the treatment of neglected tropical diseases, etc. Adrien is a graduate of IEP de Strasbourg and ESSEC business school and holds a Master’s degree in Public health from Nancy Faculty of Medicine.
Published articles
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Helping the pharmaceutical industry meet health challenges in Africa
Mehdi Tanani ProparcoGeoffrey Coombs ProparcoAdrien Absolu Agence française de développement (AFD)
Agence française de développement (AFD)
Agence française de développement (AFD) helps implement France’s development and international solidarity policy. It finances, supports and accelerates the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world through its public sector and NGO financing activities, research and publications (Editions AFD), sustainable development training (AFD Campus) and awareness-raising activities in France. Its teams are involved in more than 3,250 projects for the common good – focusing on climate, biodiversity, peace, gender equality, education and health – on the ground in French overseas departments, in 115 countries and in territories in crisis.