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Matthieu Le Grix
Head of Agriculture, Rural Development and Biodiversity Division
Agence française de développement (AFD)
Private Sector & Development author
Matthieu Le Grix is an agricultural engineer and has been head of AFD’s Agriculture, Rural Development and Biodiversity Division since 2021. Before this, he spent around ten years working as project manager in several AFD local offices in Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Tunisia. He joined the Agriculture, Rural Development and Biodiversity Division in 2018, where he has overseen AFD sector-based operations in the Sahel, Gulf of Guinea, the Maghreb, the Near and Middle East and in Latin America.
Agence française de développement (AFD)
Agence française de développement (AFD) helps implement France’s development and international solidarity policy. It finances, supports and accelerates the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world through its public sector and NGO financing activities, research and publications (Editions AFD), sustainable development training (AFD Campus) and awareness-raising activities in France. Its teams are involved in more than 3,250 projects for the common good – focusing on climate, biodiversity, peace, gender equality, education and health – on the ground in French overseas departments, in 115 countries and in territories in crisis.