Holder of a doctorate in Private Law, NONNOU Gildas is above all a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature (ENAM) with a professional degree in Labor and Social Security Administration. He has also followed several training courses on International Labor Law, notably at the International Training Center of Turin where he took part in 2016 in an international seminar on International Labor Standards.

He teaches Private Law at the ENAM of the University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), and has taught labor law and labor litigation as an Assistant at the ENAM from 2011 to 2013 as well as in some private universities until now.

He has expertise in labor migration issues, particularly with regard to general theory, legal and institutional arrangements, protection mechanisms and international cooperation.

As an expert on migration issues, he has provided training to administrators and inspectors from the entire Francophone West African region on the governance of labor migration, a JLMP initiative supported by GIZ and the African Union Commission.

He has been a member of the Network of Legal Experts on migration in West and Central Africa and the Center since 2022 with IOM.