On the ground. Geopolitics and Business
How do organized crime and terrorist networks shape statehood and investment risk in West Africa? Egregor co-founder and Oxford-trained analyst Guillaume Soto-Mayor explains the structures behind instability — and where philanthropic and business engagement can make a difference. Our topics: * How do terrorist and organized crime groups work and influence West African societies * Statehood in West Africa. A historic and current analysis * The human potential and philanthropist engagement in West Africa and beyond Guillaume Soto-Mayor graduated from the University of Oxford and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg. He is a lecturer in universities in France and independent expert with different institutions. He has conducted extensive field research on criminal and terrorist networks in North, West and Central Africa. And he is one of the founders of Egregor, a non-profit focusing on and dedicated to catalysing social and environmental transformations globally. Egregor is a venture philanthropy endowment fund that identifies and catalyses the world's most promising social and environmental innovators, NGOs and impact start-ups across Africa and Europe, providing them with long-term, multidimensional support spanning strategic guidance, organizational strengthening, expert networks, and targeted financial grants to help them cross the critical threshold from proof of concept to systemic impact. Egregor fills a gap in the ecosystem by offering deep, tailored, multi-year accompaniment to high-potential organizations that are too often overlooked. Egregor online: https://www.egregor.net/ Guillaume Soto-Mayor on X: https://x.com/GuillaumeMayor
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