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Biographical Sketch: Jean-claude BOLAY

Institution: EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)

Country: Other (non-African institution)

Jean-Claude Bolay
Vice-Presidency for Institutional Affaires
Cooperation@epfl
CM 2304 Station 10
EPFL
1015 LAUSANNE (Switzerland)
Born in 1954 in Switzerland
Director for International Cooperation
Profesor EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
B.A. in Sociology, University of Lausanne, 1977, Ph.D. in Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, 1984.
Head of a scientific and administrative team of 10 collaborators. Scientific specialist of urban development in southern countries (Latin America - Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, Argentina, Ecuador; Western Africa,Burkina Faso, Cameroun; Asia, Vietnam, India)
Coordination of new scientific activities of research and education in North South partnership cooperation for development in EPFL (priority topics for EPFL : crisis engineering; urban technologies; environment and IC; energies).
Public relations, fund raising, consultancies.