Quentin Lajus works as Task team leader in the Agriculture, Rural Development and Biodiversity Division of the French Agency for Development (AFD) headquarters. He graduated from the Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies and the Institute of Latin-American Studies with a background in Sociology and Development policies. He has worked for ten years at AFD, occupying different positions in France and in Costa Rica where he specialized on marine and coastal biodiversity issues. From three years, he is now in charge of managing around fifteen projects supported by AFD dealing with both Agriculture and Biodiversity sectors in the broader Caribbean, Guinea and also Tunisia.