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Jérôme Chenal is the Director of the Centre “Excellence in Africa” and the Director of CEAT, a research unit in spatial and urban planning, both at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). CEAT is interested in issues related to the built environment and approaches them from a multidisciplinary perspective, enabling cutting-edge research on spatial planning. He is an architect by training and did his doctoral thesis in an urban sociology laboratory on planning tools for African cities.
He is the author of numerous publications on African cities, including: The west-african city: Urban space and models of urban planning (2014, EPFL press). In these works, he developed the idea of a deep understanding of territories, social and urban dynamics in order to identify the levers of change. He has developed a MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) on urban planning visible on coursera.org. Besides regularly contributing to the international media as an expert (e.g. RFI, Jeune Afrique) he is a columnist for Le Monde Afrique. Since 2019, he has also been an Affiliate Professor at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P).