Luc Lamprière

Luc Lamprière is the Executive director of Oxfam France – Agir Ici. He joined Oxfam after having spent close to 20 years as a journalist and specialized, as a consultant, on development and human rights issues. He has been on assignment in more than 50 countries, writing on a broad number of social and economic issues.

Born in 1961, he started his career in France as a business and financial journalist in the eighties, before joining the French newspaper Liberation in 1991 where he was successively Tokyo and then New York correspondent. He has also written for a number of other French and international publications and worked as a consultant on human rights and development issues for non governmental organisations and the United Nations.

In 2001, he launched in New York for Agence France-Presse « Global Ethics Monitor », the first professional news service specialising in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development. He has also worked and lived in South Korea, Sudan and Kenya. Before joining Oxfam France, he was based in Mexico.

He holds a bachelor degree in Law, a diploma in political sciences, a graduate degree in journalism from Paris and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University. He is a former fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard.