Manon Blancafort is a Project Assistant at the Small Arms Survey, where she works on the illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Afghanistan, improvised explosive devices in West Africa as well as on the Arms Trade Treaty.

Before joining the Survey, Manon was a Graduate Professional within the Weapons of Mass Destruction and Space Security Programmes at UNIDIR. Prior to that, she worked on sexual exploitation and abuse in peace operations at the UN Secretariat, as well as on business and human rights at the International Commission of Jurists. In parallel, she served as an operational reservist for three years in the French Air and Space Forces, within a Protection Squadron.

Manon holds a Master in Peace, Security and Conflicts from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) as well as an International Humanitarian Law Degree from the Université Côte d’Azur (France) and the San Remo International Institute of Humanitarian Law (Italy).