IACS
Place Montesquieu 1/L2.08.03
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Benjamin Chemouni
Professeur
Academic employment
Since 2020
Assistant Professor in Development Studies, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
2018-20
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow / Newton Trust Fellow, University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).
2016-18
LSE Fellow, London School of Economics, Department of International Development
2013-19
Researcher, Effective State and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre, University of Manchester
Education
2012/16
PhD, London School of Economics (LSE), Department of International Development
2008/09
MSc, London School of Economics (LSE), “China in a Comparative Perspective”, Department of Anthropology
2004/08
Diploma, Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences-Po), Aix-en-Provence, France
2006/07
Exchange programme, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China
- Diploma
Year Label Educational Organization 2008 Diplome d'IEP (équivalent Master) Sciences Po Aix en Provence 2009 MSc China in comparative perspective London School of Economics 2016 PhD en études du développement London School of Economics
- Courses
Name ID Conception et évaluation de projets et politiques de développement LDVLP2155 Socio-economic analysis of Africa LDVLP2625 Seminar on project monitoring and evaluation LDVLP2651 Enjeux, management et dilemmes éthiques LHUMA2360 Contemporary issues in development policy: a comparative approach LSPED1213 Seminar in demography and development: case studies LSPED2030
2024
Chemouni, Benjamin ; Dye, Barnaby. The Limits of Concentrated Power: Bureaucratic Independence and Electricity Crises in Rwanda. In: African Affairs, (2024) (Accepté/Sous presse).
2022
Ansoms, An ; Aoun, Elena ; Chemouni, Benjamin ; Niyonkuru, René-Claude ; Williams, Timothy P.. The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education. In: Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol. 16, no.2, p. 205-227 (2022). doi:10.1080/17531055.2022.2143468.
2020
Chemouni, Benjamin ; Mugiraneza, Assumpta. Ideology and interests in the Rwandan patriotic front: Singing the struggle in pre-genocide Rwanda. In: African Affairs, Vol. 119, no.474, p. 115-140 (2020). doi:10.1093/afraf/adz017.
2020
Chemouni, Benjamin. La recherche sur l’État rwandais en débat. In: Politique Africaine, Vol. 2020-4, no.160, p. 7-34 (2020). doi:10.3917/polaf.160.0007.
2018
Chemouni, Benjamin. The political path to universal health coverage: Power, ideas and community-based health insurance in Rwanda. In: World Development, Vol. 106, p. 87-98 (2018). doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.01.023.
2018
Ridde, Valéry ; Asomaning Antwi, Abena ; Boidin, Bruno ; Chemouni, Benjamin ; Hane, Fatoumata ; Touré, Laurence. Time to abandon amateurism and volunteerism: addressing tensions between the Alma-Ata principle of community participation and the effectiveness of community-based health insurance in Africa. In: BMJ Global Health, Vol. 3, no. Suppl 3, p. e001056 (2018). doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001056.
2017
Chemouni, Benjamin. Taking stock of Rwanda’s decentralisation: changing local governance in a post-conflict environment. In: Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, Vol. 1, no. 6, p. 763-778 (2016). doi:10.1080/23802014.2016.1297207.
2014
Chemouni, Benjamin. Explaining the design of the Rwandan decentralization: elite vulnerability and the territorial repartition of power. In: Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol. 8, no.2, p. 246-262 (2014). doi:10.1080/17531055.2014.891800.
2023
Chemouni, Benjamin ; Mugiraneza, Assumpta. Singing the Unspeakable in Rwanda in the Summer of 1994: Music in the Context of the Genocidal Abyss through a Portrait of the Artists. In: Fléchet, Anaïs; Guerpin, Martin; Gumplowicz, Philippe and Kelly, Barbara L., Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Berghahn Books: New York, Oxford, 2023, p. 208-225. 978-1-80073-894-2.
2023
Chemouni, Benjamin. The politics of state capacity in post-genocide Rwanda: ‘Pockets of effectiveness’ as state-building prioritizations?. In: Hickey, Sam, Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2023, p. 146-172. 9780192864963.
2014
Chemouni, Benjamin. The political economy of the fertilizer subsidy reform in Rwanda and Burundi. In: Reyntjens F., Verpoorten M., Vandeginste S, L’Afrique des Grands Lacs : Annuaire, 2013-2014, L'Harmattan: Paris, 2014, p. 483-506. 978-2-343-04613-6.
2021
Chemouni, Benjamin. The politics of state capacity in post-genocide Rwanda: ‘Pockets of effectiveness’ as state-building prioritisations? (ESID Working Paper; 170), 2021. 34 p.
2020
Chemouni, Benjamin. Revenue extraction is not enough: The ambiguous effectiveness of the Rwandan Revenue Authority (ESID Working Paper; 157), 2020. 36 p.
2020
Chemouni, Benjamin ; Dye, Barnaby. The contradictions of the authoritarian developmental state: energy boom and policy-making in Rwanda (FutureDAMS Working paper; 008), 2020. 25 p.
2019
Chemouni, Benjamin. The rise of the economic technocracy in Rwanda: A case of a bureaucratic pocket of effectiveness or state-building prioritisation? (ESID Working Paper; 120), 2019. 40 p.
2017
Chemouni, Benjamin. The politics of core public sector reform in Rwanda (ESID Working Paper; 88), 2017. 41 p.