Juvence Ramasy

Dr Juvence Ramasy is a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Toamasina, Madagascar. He has a PhD in Political Sciences from the University Toulouse 1 Capitole, France, with a dissertation entitled "State and the implementation of democracy in the islands of the southwest Indian Ocean: the case of Madagascar and Mauritius" (2010). He also works as a consultant for national and international organisations in the field of democratic, parliamentary, electoral governance, as well as military and security issues. His current research works focus on state, political elites, security forces, electoral processes and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. He has published several academic papers. He served as a sub-Saharan Africa analyst for Freedom in the World, Global Integrity, Bertelsmann Stiftung (BTI), and Variety of Democracy (V-DEM). He has been a visiting scholar at several universities in Africa, Asia, and Europe.