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Pierrick Baraton
Consultant
Agence française de développement (AFD)
Private Sector & Development author
Pierrick Baraton is a consultant on questions related to private sector involvement in developing countries. His PhD thesis on economics from the University of Auvergne deals with microfinance in Madagascar. Pierrick spent four years working for Investisseurs & Partenaires, a fund that invests in Sub-Saharan African SMEs. He has just completed a study on supporting the private sector in situations of economic vulnerability and crises commissioned by AFD Group.
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.