Our team

With 20 years’ experience in marketing, communications, and media, Laura Pargade created this consultancy in 2008, to support organisations with evidence-based business and communication strategies

After living for seven years in rural Senegal, creating an evaluation centre to collect high-quality market and impact data, and working for private and public organisations including last mile distribution companies, she has developed a particular interest in social value and sustainability. She has grown convinced that meaningful solutions deserve innovative support, and that an inclusive approach can be a strong lever for efficiency and profitability.

Regular speaker on sustainability issues in international conferences, she has also been since 2019 the face of the Africa Energy Guarantee Facility, an initiative of the European Investment Bank, supported by KfW, to encourage sustainable energy investments on the African continent. Laura holds a master’s degree in International Management from Toulouse Business School in France and an MBA from Arizona State University. She speaks fluent French and English.

Energy and Operations Management Expert

Antoine is an expert in coordinating operations in emerging countries and difficult terrains on energy and social impact projects. With his experience of living and working in rural areas in contact with BOP populations, particularly in Senegal, he has a good grasp of the challenges of development policies and North-South cooperation. In addition, Antoine has had the opportunity to actively participate in the creation, implementation, and scaling of both B2C and B2G projects in Africa, which allowed him to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders in an international context.

His engineering studies with a focus on energy, environment and intelligent optimization allow him to be comfortable with the delivery of innovations for the benefit of all. In addition, the E-Master Data, Economics and Development Policies at MIT allowed him to acquire a better understanding of the issues related to development and the measurement of the impact of related policies and programs.

During his professional experiences, Antoine has developed a specific knowledge of intercultural management issues, of setting up and optimizing/perpetuating last mile distribution structures, allowing him to adapt strategies to the realities of the field, and to accompany the operational, financial, and HR scale-up of impact projects.

Claudine is a market studies and development consultant at Impact People.

Claudine lives and works in West Africa, particularly in Ivory Coast and Mali. She is particularly interested in the development and implementation of programs using Market Systems Development (MSD) approaches and Human-Centered Design (HCD), with expertise in designing innovative business models.

She has supported and trained numerous companies, NGOs, cooperatives, and stakeholders in Ivory Coast and several African countries in the fields of agriculture, climate change, water, sanitation, as well as inclusion, notably gender mainstreaming, youth development, decent job creation, and inclusive finance.

Claudine has collaborated with international donors and organizations such as USAID, BMZ, AFD, EU, ASDI, AICS, UNICEF, ILO, the Government of the Netherlands, and German Cooperation. Through her experience, she has acquired in-depth knowledge of best practices in poverty reduction and sustainable development, as well as in project planning, design, implementation, and monitoring, technical support to businesses, and conducting market studies and analyses in Africa.

MEAL consultant (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning)

Marie is a MEAL coordination specialist. She supervises the implementation of studies on various themes, recruits and trains teams of field investigators. She has worked for NGOs such as Solidarité International, ACTED, AIDES, CARE, in many emerging countries, and has lived in the DRC, Central Africa and Mauritania for several years.

Passionate about impact and development, she initiated a focus on the African continent during her studies. She holds a master’s degree from IEP (Sciences Po) in International Cooperation and Development, and also a master’s degree in Political Science and Governance from Mundiapolis University in Casablanca. She speaks French, English, Spanish and Arabic.

Maya is a Policy & Communication consultant at Impact People.

Before living and working in Brazil for France’s cooperation projects in the education and culture, she was a project manager at J-PAL Europe for the Innovation, Data, and Experiments in Education (IDEE) program and supported Esther Duflot for her training sessions at the Collège de France. Maya has also worked for UN Women based in Paris and Care International in their education and gender programs in Morocco. Maya holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Bordeaux in France, and a Master’s degree in Governance and Political Economy from Mundiapolis University, Morocco. She is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese and has some written and spoken knowledge of classical Arabic.