Jean-Louis Romanet Perroux is a researcher and advisor on international cooperation and development, and the director of the North African Policy Initiative (NAPI), an NGO that focuses on improving participatory governance and building the capacity of youth in North Africa.
He has over 20 years of hands-on experience in program design and implementation, in training and coaching students and activists, and in conducting action-oriented research and strategic evaluations in the fields of civil society, youth and women empowerment local governance, corruption, human trafficking and smuggling, migration, and violent extremism.
He has worked in multiple countries and multicultural organizations, often under pressure and in conflict environments. He has worked in multiple countries and multicultural organizations, often under pressure and in conflict environments
Specifically in Africa Jean-Louis has worked with more than thirty national and international organizations. He has obtained a Bachelor in Aeronautical Engineering from the Italian Air Force Academy, a Master in Political Science from the University of Trieste and a Master and a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
He describes himself as a social entrepreneur with a knack for channeling collective human resources to achieve common goals.
This is something I can clearly attest to.
I worked closely with Jean-Louis during his Fletcher years and beyond.
He was one of my EPIIC teaching assistants, a task he performed with great ease, charm and assiduousness. Several of my students were his researchers and organizers for his Libyan civil society initiative and the Institute supported several of his initial conferences and research
https://sites.tufts.edu/reinventingpeace/2013/01/03/libya-the-long-way-forward/
A NATO pilot turned humanitarian, educator, scholar and civil society and democracy activist, he was one of my primary candidates to succeed me, but I understood and honored his desire to finish his PhD. I attended his defense with pride. We are good friends.