Marc Aicardi de Saint-Paul

Honorary Consul of Burkina Faso in Nice (France) since 2003. He served as the President of the French Union of Honorary Consuls in 2012. He was a member of the editorial board of Afrique Contemporaine (La Documentation française) and he is now Advisor to the editorial board of Géopolitique Africaine (African Geopolitics). He was also journalist, correspondent for foreign English-speaking radios. He is the author of several books on Africa. He holds a PhD in public law and in Arts (Philosophy); he is a member of the French Academy of Overseas Sciences, and is an Auditor of the French Institut des hautes études de la Défense nationale.