Ryan Cauwenberghs completed his undergraduate degree at Sciences Po Paris in Economics and Societies, spending his final year at the Institut Supérieur de Management in Dakar, Senegal, where he wrote his thesis on the Casamance crisis. Having worked in various capacities in the DRC, Mauritania, and Togo, he is primarily interested in security dynamics, societal structures, and international relations in Central and West Africa.
Currently, he writes for the Streit Council on the application of federal principles in Africa and its changing role in the international order. As part of his studies at the University of Oxford, he plans to investigate the evolution of regional-political configurations within the state apparatus of Chad.