Amel MAAOUIA
Holder of a licence in international journalism, (Institut de Presses et des Sciences de l’Information, IPSI, Tunis, 2002), and of a masters' degree in public communication (DIC, Laval University, 2004), she's finalising a masters' degree in international development, and pursues a Ph.D. in International Relations at the "Institut Québécois des Hautes Études Internationales" (IQHEI, Laval University ). Her thesis focuses on discourse ethics in international development cooperation.
Amel Maaouia has been a teaching assistant at the information and communication department of Laval University .
She is undertaking reserach in the following fields: communication and international development, North-South relations and development cooperation ethics, dynamics of international media flows, media and social representations.

Myriam LAFLEUR
Graduate from the "Organisation du Baccalauréat International en sciences pures" (2002), holder of a bachelors' degree in Agriculture from Laval University (2006), she's at present undertaking second cycle studies on integrated rural development. She's also taking courses on the history of Africa, on development sociology, rural and agricultural development management and North-South relations ethics.
As an intern in international cooperation with the NGO Plan Nagua (2007) she has contributed to the implementation of a socio-economic development project in the Nicaraguan island of Zapatera. She did an internship on major crops with the seed company Sémican and Laval University, where she has developed a seminar on the influence of crop management practises on the proportion between naked and dressed seeds in oats (2006). She also took an internship in milk production in Gimsøy, Norway (2003). She wrote a report on scab prevention in orchards (2005) and worked out an agroforestry project on degraded soils in the village of Pu Lao in Cambodia (2004).
She's fluent in English and French, and presently is taking some Spanish courses. She is particularly interested in international cooperation and its consequences on countries in the South, and in the implementation of desirable change inside communities.

Magali ROBERT
Read her CV (in French).

Caroline CHAUMONT
Holder of a bachelor's degree in psychology (2005), she also detains a Minor Arts and Sciences, concentrating on English and communication (2006), as well as a certificate in communication from Laval University (2007). In the winter of 2008 she will start an MBA in social and environmental responsibilities of organisations. In 2007 she has participated in an international intercultural internship in Peru, where she had the opportunity to improve her Spanish and to acquire knowledge on how organisations function in Latin America. This year she has joined the student delegation working as development agents inside commercial missions of Laval University. This project will allow her to collaborate closely with a Quebec company on its international development, as its envoy to Brasil, and to learn Portuguese.

Her fields of interest are essentially social and environmental responsibility, international business ethics, communication, foreign cultures and languages.