Staff
Yvan Guichaoua
Professional Career
Yvan joined BICC in March 2025. He has formerly occupied academic positions at the universities of Kent, East Anglia, Yale and Oxford. He has been studying the dynamics of irregular armed groups in Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Niger since 2004. Since 2007, Yvan Guichaoua has been studying Tuareg recurring rebellions in Niger and Mali and the rise of Jihadism in the Sahel. His works pay close attention to the complex interactions between entrepreneurs of violence and low-level combatants shaping the success or failure of irregular armed groups as well as the forms of violence they perpetrate. His present research concerns jihadist governance and the drivers of jihadist expansion in Africa.