André is a consultant in cultural development and EU cultural programmes that works at the Centre de Développement pour les Musiques Actuelles (AMI) in Marseille.

He began his career as a cultural activist in Togo, where he co-directed and founded with some friends the Festival de Théâtre de la Fraternité (FESTHEF) in Assahoun and Lomé from 1995-2001. He was also the Treasurer of the Togolese branch of CAO, a pan-African NGO involved in strengthening democracy in West African countries. In parallel, he also worked as a sociologist for the national Ministry of country planning and decentralization.

After retraining in International Cooperation (MA) in Paris (2001),  André joined the AFAA (currently Institut Français), the cultural service of the French Foreign Office, and managed Fanfare - an international network of entertainment NGOs.

For the past 6 years, he's been in charge of developing the strategy and programmes at the Centre de Développement pour les Musiques Actuelles (AMI), a cultural NGO based in La Friche Belle de Mai Art factory in Marseille. His work there has allowed him to lead several cooperation projects with Central Africa, the Maghreb and the wider Middle East, and with several EU young cultural stakeholders. The list of projects he's managed include Tapis Volant (a performing arts' intercultural dialogue programme that ran in Turkey, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, the UK and France); Sostenuto (a programme to highlight the social and economic relevance of culture in Slovenia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain and France); a Youth Citizenship Forum in D.R. of Congo; etc.