Pascale Trompette

Pascale Trompette is a sociologist, working as a CNRS Senior Research Fellow at the PACTE Social Sciences Research Centre at the University of Grenoble Alpes, France.
Her research is broadly rooted in the sociology of economics, markets and innovation. Current projects concern the development of 'market-based solutions' to poverty in developing countries, with a special interest on rural electrification in Africa. Her work examines the multiplicity of (non-)market arrangements and trading networks providing energy access to households - the informal economy, the "frugal" solutions of the so-called BoP markets, kit or minigrid subsidised infrastructure. For several years now, she been collaborating with the Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa.

Pascale will be at the ASCL for three months as a self-funded visiting scholar. She hopes to develop new paths for collaboration, enrich her knowledge in the Africanist area of research, and participate in academic events.