 In 2017, he was appointed to the Scientific Council of the Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté, the independent French Ombudsman for Prisons.In the United States, as a member of the Committee of World Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association from 2010 to 2013, he was committed to the global exchange of knowledge and the reduction of the gap between the North and the South in the development of social science.This concern translated in 2015 in a three-year cycle Summer Program in Social Science for Latin American, Middle Eastern and African junior scholars.