Claude Ahouangninou

Claude Ahouangninou holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development from the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin, 2013). He is currently the Director and Senior Research Fellow of the International Institute for Research on Sustainable Development (IIRDD Canada), which he co-founded in 2023 in Quebec. His expertise spans agroecological modeling, risk management related to pesticides, urban agriculture, and agroecological transitions in West Africa and Morocco. Between 2014 and 2023, he taught in several universities in Benin and was appointed Assistant Professor in the CAMES system in 2019. In 2020, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLouvain (Belgium), focusing on agroecological transition indicators and quantitative methods. At IIRDD Canada, he leads interdisciplinary research on agroecology, public sustainability policies, environmental and circular economics, digital governance, environmental justice, pollution and climate change, systems modeling, and the philosophy and history of science. He has authored over thirty scientific publications and adopts quantitative, participatory, and systemic approaches to support ecological transitions in both the Global South and North. He has also supervised and co-supervised numerous undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D. students in West Africa.