André Teyssier is a Senior Land Administration Specialist working on land governance and land policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. He joined the World Bank’s Africa Agriculture unit in 2010 as a secondee sponsored by the French Government and then the Global Land Unit as World Bank staff in 2014. He is now part of the West Africa Urban, Resilience and Land unit. Teyssier holds a PhD in Tropical Geography from the University of Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne. Before joining the Bank, he worked for the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for over 20 years in Central Africa and Madagascar. As a Government of Madagascar technical advisor from 2004 to 2010, he was one of the designers of land reform based on a decentralized land tenure management system. He works mostly in Francophone African countries (Burkina-Faso, Burundi, DRC, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Mauritania, Senegal, Togo), leading land operations’ preparation and supervision and analytical work on land policies.