- EDUCATION
- PhD in Economics, Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE), Groupement de Recherche en Economie Quantitative d’Aix-Marseille (GREQAM), Defended in September 2017.
Title: Modeling and analysis of NGOs impact in developing countries
Advisors: Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa, Tanguy van Ypersele
- Master in “Macroeconomics and Growth”, Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE), July 2013.
2. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Young Professional (Economist), The World Bank, Washington DC, since September 2019.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, SIEPR (Stanford Institute for Policy and Economic research), California, October 2017-August 2019.
- Affiliated Researcher, Togo, CROP (Center for Research and Opinion Polls), since 2014.
3. INTERNSHIPS
- Research Intern, University of Namur, Belgium, supervised by Gani Aldashev, Center of Research in the Economics of Development (CRED), on “Public goods provision in fragile countries”, January-May 2015.
- CARE International, Cote d’Ivoire, (July-August 2012): Internship at CARE International (Côte d’Ivoire) on "The synergy of two initiatives -“Saving and credits groupings”, and “Peace Committees” – for long lasting impact and sustainable development”.
- Banque Togolaise pour le Commerce et l’Industrie, Togo (September-October 2010): Internship at the customer service of the “Banque Togolaise pour le Commerce l’Industrie” in Lomé.
4. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
(a) Research
- Transparency, Participation and Citizen Engagement in Africa: what we know, and all that we still ignore. (March 2018)
- Gender, information and the efficiency of households' productive decisions: An experiment in rural Togo. (July 2017)
- Insurance in development projects: the effect of the legal structure of implementers, July 2018.
- Growth enhancing foreign intervention in developing countries: Government versus NGO provision of public goods. (June 2015)
- Infrastructure, NGOs and growth: does the presence of NGOs matter for economic growth? (Master Thesis, July 2013)
- Field experiment on the productive decision-making in agricultural households in rural Togo, in collaboration with Habiba Djebbari and Roberta Ziparo, funded by Aix-Marseille University. November 2015-October 2016.
- Transparency and accountability in Healthcare in 13 regions of Cote d’Ivoire, in partnership with CARE Cote d'Ivoire since October 2017.
(b) Conferences, Seminars, workshop
- The Hewlett Foundation Grantee Convening on Transparency and Accountability Initiatives, Kampala, Uganda. May 2018.
- Africa table, Center for African Studies, Stanford University, California, USA. May 2018.
- Symposium for Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC 2018), Wageningen University, the Netherlands, (Chair, presenter). April 2018.
- The Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) International conference, University of Oxford, Parallel Session 83, (Chair, discussant, presenter). March 2018.
- Aix-Marseille School of Economics PhD seminar, Aix Marseille University, France. November 2013, September 2014, May 2016.
- The 6th NGO, Development and Globalization seminar, NGO Network, Paris School of Economics, France. September 2014.
- CRED Workshop, University of Namur, Belgium. May 2015.
(c) Teaching:
- Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics, undergraduate level (freshman year), Aix-Marseille University, (2014-2015, 2016-2017).
- Teaching Assistant, Institutions and development, undergraduate level (senior year), Aix-Marseille University, (2016 -2017).
5. HONORSHIPS, AWARDS
- Research Grant: Ecole Doctorale Aix-Marseille University and GREQAM, 10 970 Euros, (2015).
Project: Field experiment on the productive decision-making in agricultural households in rural Togo.
- PhD scholarship: Aix-Marseille School of Economics, (2013-2016).
6. COMPUTER SKILLS AND LANGUAGES
- Scientific softwares: Stata, CSpro, Latex, RATS for econometrics, Macsim software of macroeconomic policy simulation.
- Languages: French and Ewe: Native; English: Fluent (writing, speaking, reading).