Alain Carton is an Associate Research Fellow at IRIS, specialising in France’s overseas territories and their regional environments, as well as the blue economy.
Alain Carton previously served as a senior civil servant within the French Ministries of Defence, the Interior, and Overseas France. Initially a specialist in Franco-German relations, European defence policy, and United States security policy, he later joined the préfectoral corps and the corps of State administrators at the Ministry of the Interior, where he held several positions with a focus on budgetary and financial matters or local economic development.
At the Ministry of Overseas France, he was responsible for integrating France’s overseas territories into their regional environments and for the strategic dimensions of this cooperation. He worked on reforms to improve international mobility for residents of the overseas territories and on environmental issues related to maritime areas.
He created a consultancy firm supporting economic development in the overseas territories and joined the group STRATEMH as a consultant, based in French Guiana and the Indian Ocean. His current work includes issues related to Asia–Indian Ocean maritime routes centred on the port hub of La Réunion, drinking-water supply for the Amerindian areas of French Guiana, and the industrial valorisation of invasive algae in the Caribbean and Antillean basin.
