GAELLE ARENSON, Editor-in-Chief – AFRICA BUSINESS (JEUNE AFRIQUE MEDIA GROUP)
As editor-in-chief, Gaëlle manages the team of dedicated Africa Business+ journalists, as well as regular contributors to the medium, including authors from the Jeune Afrique Media Group. Her tasks also include commercial follow-up of the product and its development at the level of the group’s event activity.
A Mining specialist with an interest in infrastructure, agri-food, finance, banking and insurance, she is developing an expertise in the flow of savings and prension funds in Africa.
Before joining the group and launching Africa Business+ in 2016, Gaëlle was editor-in-chief at Indigo Publications/AfricaIntelligence, a press group specialising in Africa based in Paris, where she headed Maghreb Confidentiel and launched Africa Mining Intelligence. She holds a B.A. Hons. in International Relations from the University of Kent (UK) and a DESS in International and Strategic Relations from IRIS (Paris), and is a graduate of the Institut Pratique de Journalisme Université Paris Dauphine. Fluently bilingual – she lived in England for six years – she regularly hosts panels and round-table discussions, and for two years was the business columnist on TV5Monde’s Africa news programme.