Jean Marc Tiendrebeogo

Research Associate

Jean Marc Tiendrebeogo serves as a Research Associate for the Pulte Institute for Global Development’s Innovation and Practice Division. In this capacity he supports the Pulte Institute with the design and management of its research portfolio. He primarily supports the USAID-funded Supporting Holistic and Actionable Research in Education (SHARE) program. On SHARE, Jean Marc specifically supports the LITES (Language of Instruction Transition in Education
Systems) study in Mali and Senegal and the CREST (Contextually Relevant Emotional and Social Wellbeing Tools) study in Haiti.

Prior to joining the University of Notre Dame Pulte Institute for Global Development, he served as a Program Officer and Head of Office in the Sahel region of West Africa for a USAID-funded regional Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program that worked directly with vulnerable young men and women to empower youth, promote moderate voices, strengthen civil society capacity to address community issues and strengthen local government. In this capacity, he was responsible for working directly with the program’s individual and institutional beneficiaries: Community Action Comities (CACs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), youth associations, local government officials, etc. to assist them in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the program’s activities.

Jean Marc most recently worked as a State Department foreign service national, serving as a consular assistant and fraud prevention investigator at the US Embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. As a former Fulbright Scholar and Kroc Institute Fellow, Jean Marc holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Augustana University and a Master of Global Affairs with a concentration in International Peace studies from the University of Notre Dame.