Emmanuelle Brindamour

Emmanuelle Brindamour is a senior at Yale University, studying statistics and data science. Her research focuses on foreign activity in Africa's energy sector and the strategic, military, and economic implications of foreign investment in Africa in the landscape of great power competition. Specifically, she uses satellite imagery to monitor the development of energy projects over time and evaluate the accuracy of secondary reporting on production benchmarks, timelines, and infrastructure. In light of ongoing Wagner Group activity and the war in Ukraine, she studies how Russia and China's economic footprint in the continent could affect the international economy and energy access on the long-term. She is currently exploring these topics in partnership with Tearline, an open-source project under the Department of Defense, and developing geospatial classification software under Yale's Statistics & Data Science department at Yale. Previously, she led a research team with Tearline focused on the activity of Russian-owned oil and gas projects in North and West Africa and studied Russian active measures abroad at the Cambridge Security Initiative.

At Yale, she partakes in the Turing Fellowship for AI Policy, conducts machine learning research, collaborates on Yale Foreign Policy Initiative research, and has served as co-president and treasurer of Berkeley College. Being a Canadian native, she speaks French and currently studies Russian.

She plans to pursue he research in graduate school next year. Her research on geospatial analysis of Russian energy projects is the focal point of her applications to Master's programs in Russian studies, data science, and foreign service. 

 

Bio recorded January 3, 2025