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Jan KREWER
Research Fellow (CIFRE PhD Contract)
Researcher
Expertise : Commons, Digital, Public Policies
Languages : French, German, English
Country and region : Rwanda, Senegal
Theme : Governance, Digital and Innovation
PhD student at the Center for Economics of Sorbonne Paris Nord University, Jan Krewer studies ecologization strategies based on commons in global value chains, particularly in the semiconductor sector.
Jan Krewer’s research focuses on forms of collective management of technologies and their potential for strong sustainability. He is pursuing this work as part of a CIFRE PhD (Industrial Agreements for Training through Research), under the supervision of Professor Isabelle Liotard at the Center for Economics of Sorbonne Paris Nord University and Stéphanie Leyronas in the Economic Diagnostics and Public Policy Department at AFD.
His research particularly examines ecologization strategies based on commons in global value chains, especially in the semiconductor sector, at the intersection of political economy, technological governance, and ecological transitions.
Jan Krewer holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris. As a rapporteur and later Deputy Secretary General at the French Digital Council (Conseil national du numérique), he contributed to the Council’s work on the Law for a Digital Republic.
He has lived in Senegal and Rwanda, where he joined the Smart Africa Alliance as a strategic advisor, working on data governance and digital identity federation.
As an independent consultant, he has worked with AFD, GIZ, the Mozilla Foundation, KfW, and the Jacques Delors Institute. More recently, he was a senior policy analyst at the think tank Open Future, where he contributed to the development of a European agenda for digital commons.
- « From Open Access to Collective Governance Two Decades of Digital Commons Policies in the European Union », Open Future Foundation (2025).
- « Digital Commons as Providers of Public Digital Infrastructures », with Warso Zuzanna, Open Future Foundation (2024).
- « Entrepreneuriat et communs numériques : alternative ou complémentarité ? », with S. Leyronas and T. Mboa, in S. Leyronas, K. Nubukpo, B. Coriat, L’Afrique en communs : tensions, mutations, perspectives, AFD, Banque mondiale, p.141-175 (2023).
- « Creating community-driven datasets: Insights from Mozilla Common Voice activities in East Africa - Mozilla Foundation », Mozilla Research Hub, GIZ (2023).
- « Looking for an Exit: Europe’s Way to Public Digital Infrastructures », Tech Policy Press (2025).
- « Ecrire une histoire numérique commune », with Stéphanie Leyronas, The Conversation Fance (2023).
- « The UN and the Commons: New Alliances for the Digital Age? », with Lea Gimpel, United Nations Association of Germany (2019).
- « La donnée est-elle le nouveau pétrole ou un nouvel environnement ? », Usbek&Rica (2018).