Christian Girard

Christian Girard is a researcher at the Observatoire québécois des inégalités. He was previously Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in the British system) in Politics, Government, Development and International Affairs and Lecturer in Management and Public Administration at The University of the South Pacific (USP, Fiji), and Assistant Professor in Politics, Philosophy & Economics and Coordinator of Development Studies at the Asian University for Women (AUW, Bangladesh).

Dr. Girard has extensive professional and research experience in academia, NGOs and the private sector in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and the South Pacific on various projects related to social innovation, poverty reduction, housing and informal settlements, education, women’s empowerment, as well as information and communications technologies for development (ICT4D), including monitoring, evaluation, accountability & learning (MEAL) and research & learning for adaptive programming.

He is co-editor of the book Mapping Security in the Pacific: A Focus on Context, Gender and Organisational Culture (Routledge, 2020), covering issues related to climate change, governance, indigeneity, adaptation, and resilience.