Hervé Nicolle
Hervé Nicolle is the founder and co-director of Samuel Hall. Since 2009, he has led the economic unit at Samuel Hall, focusing on both micro-economic research centered on livelihoods and employment in urban and rural settings, with a focus on men, women and youth; and on macro-economic research feeding into National Labor Policies, Social Protection Policies and Migration Policies. His work includes multi-dimensional analyses of wellbeing, and economic understanding of vulnerabilities. Hervé has more than twelve years of international experience conducting research across Africa (East, West and South) and Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan) for a wide range of donors, UN agencies, international organisations, NGOs, and businesses. Prior to founding Samuel Hall, Hervé worked as a socio-economic advisor in the strategy unit of the European energy utility company GDF-Suez, and prior to that as the speechwriter to the Chairman and CEO. Hervé holds an MBA from Cornell University, three Masters degrees in Economics, Literature, and Philosophy from Université Sorbonne Paris IV. Hervé is a graduate of the French Ecole Normale Supérieure. He continues to teach philosophy in France, and at the Alliance Française in Nairobi, where he is has been living since 2014.
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