Hamza Kechiche

Communications Officer

Networks Program

Paris, France

Hamza is a young professional dedicated to international development and sustainability. At SDSN, he supports the Networks Team, focusing on several EU projects, and contributes to the Communications Team's outreach efforts. Before joining SDSN, Hamza had experience working on social and behavior change projects in collaboration with major institutional donors such as UNICEF, UNDP, UN Women, WFP, and USAID, across Africa and the Middle East. His work spanned a range of critical issues, including climate change, global health, gender, food security, and WASH, covering all aspects of projects lifecycle — from research, data collection, and analysis to strategy design, implementation, workshop facilitation, and monitoring and evaluation. In addition, Hamza also worked with a European clusteron Transport and Mobility, a collective of associations focused on Africa's development, and at the French Embassy in Podgorica, where he supported
Montenegro’s EU accession efforts.


Hamza holds master’s degrees in International Relations from Paris 2 Assas University and in African and Mediterranean Studies from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and is currently pursuing a Master’s in European Affairs at Sciences Po Paris.


A native French speaker, he is fluent in English and has intermediate proficiency in Arabic and Spanish. Outside of his professional life, Hamza is passionate about cinema, particularly fantasy and science fiction movies.