Prof Dr Véronique Dimier

Prof. Véronique Dimier is a political scientist working on history. She has been formerly Deakin and Marie Curie fellow at St Antony’s college, Oxford University, Fulbright Fellow at NYU University, Braudel Fellow at the European Institute (Firenze), more recently the holder of the Chaire Gutenberg, University of Strabsourg, SAGE. She is currently teaching at the ULB and the College of Europe (Natolin). Her courses deal with EU develoment aid, health policies in Africa, and African politics.

Her Phd dissertation (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, 1999) deals with the Indirect Rule vs Direct rule controversy among French and British experts in colonial administration from the 1930s on. It analyses the political stakes of this debate, most notably within the Permanent Mandate Commission (Le gouvernement des colonies, regards croisés franco-britannique, Presses Universitaire de Bruxelles, 2004). From 1999 on, she has been working on the second career of French colonial officials, most notably their role in the EEC/EU development aid programmes in Africa (The invention of a European Development Aid Bureaucracy, Palgrave, 2014). The last four years she has been working on businesses, decolonization and development. She recently published with S Stockwell (ed.), The business of development in post-colonial Africa (Palgrave, 2021). Her work also deals with human rights and development/the evaluation of development aid/the EU delegations in Africa.