Alex Nadège Ouedraogo is a Belgo-Burkinabè political scientist specializing in social policy in West Africa, currently employed at the University of Bremen. A political scientist by training, she combines socio-anthropological approaches with her background and also is an ethnographer. Her current doctoral thesis investigates food and nutrition-related social policies in Senegal. Alex Nadège Ouedraogo is an early career researcher and holds a Master of Political Science with a specialization in International Relations and Humanitarian Aid from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.