Robert PECCOUD

Career

  • Robert Peccoud holds a PhD in Sociology and began his professional career at University Paris I, then NYU and the State University of New York at Buffalo where he lectured until 1975. He subsequently joined the French Ministry of Cooperation where he became adviser to the Minister, then country director and finally director of the Education and Research department. He joined the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in 1995. After holding positions as Country Director for Togo and Tunisia, in 2002 he set up the Research Department which he has headed ever since.