Putin’s grain gamble: A European response to Russia’s latest ploy
Russia is weaponising food insecurity for geopolitical gain. Europeans should focus their response on supporting the needs of African countries
Experts & Staff
Lauriane Devoize
ECFR Alumni · Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
European foreign policy; southern neighbourhood; EU-Africa relations; multilateralism and the UN; Franco-German relations
Languages
French, English, German, Spanish, Turkish (intermediate)
Biography
Lauriane Devoize is a policy fellow with the Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining ECFR, she worked as a French career diplomat, including as first secretary at the French Embassy in Berlin. In that role, her focus was foreign policy and security issues in Africa, particularly the Sahel and EU-Africa relations, and the Middle East.
Devoize also has expertise in multilateral issues and peacekeeping in Africa and the Middle East having worked in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) team at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris and on secondment at the German Foreign Ministry at the beginning of Germany’s UNSC mandate. She previously gained experience at the European Commission (at the directorate general for trade, southern neighbourhood) and the German society for International cooperation.
She holds an MA in public affairs from Sciences Po Paris, where she has also been a lecturer in international relations.
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In the media
Wagner is crouching and there is no doubt that the group will try to take advantage of the coup if it is successful
Lauriane Devoize’s analysis on the risks arising from the coup in Niger for regional stability
Niger is a key ally for all the Europeans involved in the Sehal
Lauriane Devoize comments on the issues raised by the current situation in Niger and the importance of cooperation between Europe and Niger in the fight against terrorism and migrant smuggling
Ecowas has a lot at stake, so at political level, because of fear from the ‘coup contagion’, threatening other democracies in the region
Lauriane Devoize comments on Niger, particularly about what is at stake for Ecowas, politically and on a security level
Lauriane Devoize comments on Putin´s grain gramble
Nothing can be ruled out
Lauriane Devoize comments on the Niger coup