Kwamou Eva FEUKEU
Kwamou Eva FEUKEU co-runs the Decolonial Comparative Law project at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private International Law (Germany) initiated by Prof Dr Ralf Michaels and Prof Dr Lena Salaymeh. She previously worked as the Africa coordinator for Futures Literacy at UNESCO for 4 years. She has also organised her own practice as a head futurist for UN Global Pulse Finland, the OECD, or the French Development Agency. She is an experienced facilitator and lab designer involved in labs run mainly in Africa and Europe since 2014 for governments, NGOs, CEOs, but also in family settings. Feukeu is also a member of the editorial board of two scientific journals, Futures and Prospective et stratégie. She has spoken for a variety of constituencies: Stanford University, World Bank, UN Office for Africa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, African Technology Policy Centre, etc.
A legal scholar by training, she focuses her recent works on the role that norms play in the production and evolution of anticipatory systems using lessons learned from decolonial studies and pluralist legal contexts as evidence of complexity. She is also keen to work on African representations and uses of the future. She is currently a PhD candidate in Complexity Studies and Law at University of Lancaster (UK). She holds a Master’s Degree in business litigation and arbitration and a Bachelor in African studies from Sciences Po Paris.
Learn more: TEDxTours, The Capacity to Decolonize (project proposal and research paper, accessible online), African Futures: an Interview