I am an Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Boston University's Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. I am also a Core Faculty Member of the Human Capital Initiative, Global China Initiative and the Global Economic Governance Initiative at Boston University Global Development Policy Center. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development at the University of Oxford where I was affiliated with St. Anthony's College and the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) of the University. Before that I held a Research Economist position at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) where I still hold my Associate Researcher affiliation. I am also an Affiliate Researcher at the United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) and served as the Coordinator of the Complexity Economics Working Group of the Young Scholars' Initiative, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET, New York) from 2020-2023. I am a former World Bank Africa fellow, Washington, DC. Outside academia, I have worked and consulted for institutions working in international development including the World Bank, African Development Bank, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), European Commission (EU-JRC) and Asian Development Bank.

I hold a PhD in Economics from Maastricht University/UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands. My research interest focuses broadly on development economics in areas such as (i) economics and measurement of structural transformation, jobs and inclusive growth (ii) global value chains and trade (iii) research in services and industrialization, and (iv) issues at the intersection of technology adoption, climate change and productivity in developing countries with a particular focus on countries in Africa.

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