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Marion Péchayre

Marion Péchayre

Team coordinator at Crash and Director of Studies

Marion has over twenty years of experience and reflection on humanitarian action. She is currently Director of Studies and Team Coordinator at Crash. Initially working as a practitioner with the NGO Solidarités International in various countries in Africa and Asia, Marion then spent several years in academia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London for a PhD and taught at other institutions (Sciences Po Paris and Manchester University in particular). She was a member of the ALIMA board from 2018 to 2021. Her research has focused on the sorting logic of humanitarian NGOs, the history of ALIMA and “African doctors,” and the managerial logics at MSF in particular. Recently, Marion was head of mission for Médecins Sans Frontières in Malawi from 2020 to 2023 before returning to Crash. She is a graduate of ESCP Business School (2004) and Kings College London with a Master's degree in War Studies, and has a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS University of London.

MSF office MSF/Antoine Kremer Interview

Management at MSF - Part 2

07/20/2020 Marion Péchayre Elba Rahmouni

In our first interview, Marion Péchayre discussed a variety of management-related problems at Médecins Sans Frontières: working in silos, the ever-growing number of management tools for monitoring, the endless validation requests, the vanishing role of the individual in favour of pseudoscientific presentations of events and projects, etc. This interview, conducted by Elba Rahmouni, focuses on solutions to these problems and hypotheses on how to improve our ways of working. Rather than offering set recipes, Marion Péchayre advocates an approach based on “practical wisdom” (a concept from the sociology of professions) and deliberative management that every individual and team can apply in their own way. 

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MSF office MSF/Antoine Kremer Interview

Management at MSF

02/28/2020 Marion Péchayre Elba Rahmouni

In this interview, different issues related to management at MSF are broached with Marion Péchayre, Director of Studies at the CRASH, such as the fragmentation of different components of our work, professionalisation drifting towards an attitude of control as embodied by the multiplication of management tools and the omnipresence of requests for validation, and the devaluation of the role of the individual against the promotion of a pseudo-scientific presentation of facts and projects.

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