Didier BOUAKAZE-KHAN DEUG, Licence, PhD.
Principal Consultant Heritage Management

Career Summary
• 2010 - Present Principal Consultant, Heritage Management Services, CAA-ASE, UCL.
• 2010 - Heritage Consultant, Heritage Management Services, CAA-ASE, UCL.
• 2009 - 2010    Freelance Heritage Sector Consultant for Africa and Eurpoe.
• 2008 - 2009   Principal Curator, World Heritage at National Museum of Botswana.
• 2006 - 2008    Senior Research Fellow at Rock Art Research Institute, Wits University, Johannesburg.
• 2005 - 2006    Lecturer & Research Associate, University of Botswana.
• 2001 - 2004    Lecturer, University of Galatasaray, Istanbul.
• 2002 - 2004    Lecturer, Bosphorous University, Istanbul
• 1997 - 2002    Research Associate, CNRS, Paris & Sorbonne University.
• 1994 - 1996    Research Assistant, ULB, Brussels.
• 1989 - 1993    Freelance Researcher (Archaeology/Anthropology), Horn of Africa.

Membership of Learned Societies and Professional Recognition
• Senior Research Fellow, Rock Art Research Institute (RARI), Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Member of the International Union of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences, Commission on Nomadic Population
• Research Associate, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifi que (CNRS), France
• Member of the Australian Rock Art Association
• Member of the Societe des Africanistes, France
• Member of the Pan-African Association of Archaeologists
• Member of the Association of South African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA)
• Research Associate at the Centre National de Prehistoire, France
• Member of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA)

Education Background / Qualifications
• 2002   Doctorate Archaeology and Anthropology 2002, Sorbonne University Paris.
• 1996   Licence Scientifique Archaeology & Anthropology, Non-European Societies, Brussels University-ULB.
• 1989   Degree (DEUG) Art History & Archaeology, Sorbonne University Paris.

Key Projects
• Participated in EU Regional Workshop in Dar Es Salaam on ‘Thematic Instruments and Liaison with Civil Society’.
• Feasibility study for the opening of a Bureau of cultural restoration NGO in Ethiopia.
• Organisation of study fieldtrip and logistical management to Ethiopia.
• Management of security for the display of a range of museum religious artefacts.
• Consultant for the post-conflict reconstruction of Ethiopia, acting as an expert for strategy in the Cultural Dimension of Development in partnership with the Centre for Research for Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Culture Ministry Ethiopia).
• Principal Curator, World Heritage Site at Tsodilo Hills Botswana.
• Curator of exhibition “Create for Existence. San artists from Kalahari” with publication of exhibition catalogue, logistics management for international shipment, insurance and safety of exhibited collection.
• Multilateral cultural cooperation project (involving France, Botswana, South Africa and the EU) for the Valorisation of W.H. Tsodilo Hills site project.

Recent Publications

• 2008. Art for Existence. Exhibition Catalogue, French / English, July 2008.
• 2008. Les San Bushman du Kalahari et l’Art rupestre du Botswana. Conference given on 31 July 2008, in Montignac France, during the symposium organised by the International Directorate for Prehistory (PIP) and the French National Centre for Prehistory (CNP).
• 2008. The ethics of World Heritage. Conference given on 26 November at the National Museum of Botswana, Gaborone, for the seminar ‘European and African Perspectives on Archaeological Management’.
• 2007. The Tsodilo Hills Project. Inaugural Workshop of the International Tourism Research Centre (ITRC), University of Botswana, Gaborone, 24-26 September 2007.
• 2007. The Role of Archaeologists in Heritage Management Planning: the Tsodilo Hills Project. Shashe Limpopo Symposium, University of Pretoria, 26-30 September 2007.
• 2007. The Rock Art of the Horn of Africa. Theoretical Perspectives. International Newsletter on Rock Art-INORA, 48: 20-3.
• 2007. L’art rupestre de la Corne de l’Afrique. Etat des connaissances et hypothèse d’interprétation. Préhistoire, Art& Cultures.
• 2006. The Rock Art of the Horn of Africa: Pastoralist’s ways of making culture. South African Conference on Rock Art (SACRA), 4-12 February 2006, Kimberley, South Africa.
• 2006. Breuil in Ethiopia: a justifi ed long lasting legacy? International Symposium ‘Henri Breuil in Africa: The making of African prehistory during the first half of the 20th century’, 23-25 August 2006, Origins Centre, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 2005. The archaeological dimension of development: needs and constraints. 12th Pan-African Congress of Archaeology, Gaborone, 4-13 July 2005.
• 2005. L’art pariétal de l’Angola et l’art rupestre de la Corne de l’Afrique. Conference given with Dr Gutierrez at the French Alliance Gaborone, Botswana, 26 July 2005
• 2002. L’Art Rupestre de la Corne de l’Afrique. Etude Globale dans son Contexte Archéologique & Anthropologique.
• Modèle d’Interprétation. Doctorate dissertation in Archaeology, 2 volumes (572 pages), Université Paris 1-Panthéon- Sorbonne.
• 2000. (et al.) Art Rupestre et Néolithique de l’Ethiopie. Découvertes récentes. Annales d’Ethiopie, vol.XVI:39-53.
• 1998. L’art rupestre d’Ethiopie. Récentes découvertes. Conference given at the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 09 November 1998.
• 1997. La notion de patrimoine culturel. L’Exposition Vallées du Niger au Nigeria. Post-Graduate dissertation (Licence ULB), (142 pages). Internal publication of the Institut Français de Recherches en Afrique (IFRA), Ibadan, Nigéria.
• 1996. L’Exposition Vallées du Niger: Réfl exions sur la notion de patrimoine culturel au Nigeria. IFRA Newsletter, vol.V, n°2:17-9.