Amandine Gnanguênon is Senior Fellow and Head of the Geopolitics and Geoeconomics Program. She holds a PhD in political science from the University Clermont Auvergne (France). Her areas of focus include regional integration, peace and security, governance, artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalization, and climate-related issues. Over the last fifteen years, her work has focused on the evolution of the political and institutional landscape in Africa, and the continent's relationships with Europe. She has delved into the policies, strategies and interventions of the African Union, Regional Economic Communities and ad hoc coalitions, with a particular emphasis on West Africa and the Sahel.

Before joining APRI, Amandine offered her expertise as a senior independent advisor to governments, think tanks, German foundations, African regional organisations, the European Union (EU), and the United Nations. Her notable assignments include working for the German Federal Foreign Office, within the Data Innovation Lab, to strengthen multilateral cooperation with Africa in digitalization, technology, and AI. She has assisted the French Development Agency (AFD) in establishing a Regional Early Warning System in the West African Coastal states and has undertaken monitoring and evaluation missions for EU Delegations in Africa and the ECOWAS Commission. Additionally, she contributed to the first edition of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) Conflict Analysis Handbook.

As a political analysis, she has worked as a Research Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) in Dakar. She set up and led the Sub-Saharan Africa program at the Institute of Strategic Research at École Militaire (IRSEM). She also was the director of the War and Political Reconstruction (Guerre &Po) project (from 2012 to 2016), hosted by the Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF) at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), which was a winning project of the "Emergences Program" supported by the City of Paris.

Amandine has published across various academic, policy, and media platforms.

Currently, she is an Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), where her research focuses on regional integration, regionalism, and EU-Africa cooperation.