SELECTED TALKS AT SEMINARS/ CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOP
2018: Working Group on African Political Economy (WGAPE), April; ENAR (Eastern North American Region Biometry and Biostatistics Society), Diversity Workshop; Atlanta, Georgia, March; World Bank Fragility Forum, Washington DC, USA; World Bank/ UC Berkeley CEGA conference on Artificial Intelligence in Development economics, San Francisco, California, March; American Economic Association (AEA) Annual meeting; Philadelphia, USA, January; African Development Bank (Afdb) (AEO), African Economic Outlook, Cote d’Ivoire, Abidjan, January
2017: African Women in Politics, UC Berkeley, Politcal Science Department; OpenCon Conference Workshop lead, Berlin,Germany, Households in Conflict Network (HICN), Brussels, Belgium; Harvard University; Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, November 2017 (Presenter) ;OpenCon conference for “Empowering the Next Generation to Advance Open Access, Open Education and Open Data”, Berlin, Germany, November 2017 (Workshop leader) ; World Bank Open Access Week, 2017, Washington DC, November 2017 (Key note speaker) ; Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference, San Diego, October 2017 (presenter) ; Public Economics for Development Conference in Maputo, Mozambique (presenter) ; International Conference on Child Indicators (ISCI) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (presenter) ; BITSS Summer Institute, UC Berkeley; WGAPE meeting, UC Berkeley; American Economic Association (ASSA/AEA) Annual conference, January 2017, Chicago, Hyatt Regency Hotel
2016: UC Berkeley Development Economics Seminar; BITSS Annual meeting, UC Berkeley; Join African Development Bank, UNDP and UNECA, African Economic Conference (AEC),; Open Con Conference on " Empowering the Next Generation to Advance Open Access, Open Education and Open Data" in the USA , Washington DC, 12th-14th November 2016; Data for policy conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, September 2016; British Society for Population Studies Conference, University of Winchester, UK, September 2016; Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) (World Bank Group, OECD, UNEP) Green Growth conference, Presenter, Jeju Island, South Korea, 05th-09th September 2016; 05th Isibalo-Statistics South Africa Young African Statisticians Conference, Trainer and Presenter on Transparency in Social Sciences, Pretoria, South Africa, 13-17 June 2016; 2016 Essen Health Conference, University of Essen-Duisburg , Germany, Presenter , 27-29 May 2016; 2016 Dphil SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit) Day, University of Sussex, Sussex University, Presenter 16th May 2016; 56th Congress of the Canadian Economic Society, University of Laval, Quebec City, May 2016; International Conference on Recent Development in Applied Statistics, University of Maryland, Sub regional Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (ISSEA) and Bank of Central African States (BEAC);14th-18th March 2016, Yaoundé, Cameroon; Participant to the International Pre-COP 21 Conference of Youth on Climate Change, Paris, France, 26th-28th November 2016; UNU-WIDER Workshop on Gender and Development, October 2016; French Institute of Demography Research (INED), Training on Multilevel Modeling using SAS, MLWIN and R, Paris, May 2016; London School of Economics (LSE) Africa Summit, London School of Economics, UK, April 2016; World Wide University Network Workshop, Community of Learning of African PhD Fellows, (COLA),Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research (TIER), Haverford College, Philadelphia, USA, 01st-02nd April 2016; Geneva Development Workshop at various UN specialized agencies including the WTO, ILO, UNSRISD, UNEP, CERN from 8-12 February 2016, Geneva, Switzerland.
2015: Green Economy Learning Forum, OECD, Paris, France; OpenCon Conference on " Empowering the Next Generation to Advance Open Access, Open Education and Open Data" in Brussels, Belgium, 14th-16th November 2015; selection workshop on Gender and Development of UNU-WIDER in Namur, Belgium, 12-13 November 2015; 30th Anniversary of the United Nations University-WIDER (UNU-WIDER) International Conference on “Mapping the future of development economics”, September 17th- 20th 2015, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland; 2015 Human Development and Capability Association Conference 10th-13th September 2015, Georgetown University, Washington DC,USA; 03rd International Conference on “Financing for Development”, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13th-16th July 2015;
World Bank International Conference on “Conflict and Fragility in Africa” at the University of California at Berkeley, 08th -09th June 2015, California Berkeley, USA; United Nations-Expert Group Meeting on “Gender in Agricultural Value Chains”, Kampala, Uganda 12th May- 15th May 2015; Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS), 27th- 29th April 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Session chair and presenter at the international Symposium of “Health in Africa” at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, 19th May- 22nd May 2015; Session chair and presenter at the 2nd Africa Think Tank Summit, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, , 06th-08th April 2015; Conference of Minister of Finance and Development Planning in Africa , United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia , 25th-31st March 2015; 29th of March 2015; University of Oxford, Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), St Catherine College, United Kingdom; Chair, presenter and discussant of the session on ‘’Conflict in Africa’’ at the 2015 conference on ‘Economic Development in Africa’, 22th-24th March 2015; Workshop on Mining, Conflict and Post Conflict reconstruction in Eastern DRC, Eastern DRC, 3-4 December 2015, University of Antwerpen, Belgium with featured sessions on Female Empowerment in Eastern DRC: The impact of support programmes. Presenter and participant at the Social Development Policy Division Seminar, 08th July 2015, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, 08th July 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 2015 UNECA Data Country Profiles, 22nd -26th June 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 2015 PopPov (USAID and Population Reference Bureau, USA) Workshop on “Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment” 24th- 26th June 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; ‘’African Gender and Development Index training Workshop: Phase 3”, United Nations Conference Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 02nd -06th June 2015; “Joint Planning Meeting UNECA-WHO” , United Nations Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 2015; ‘’Gender and Financial inclusion’ , Joint working group with UNECA, AfDB, UNDP, AU at the African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31st March 2015; ‘’UNECA Gender Statistics Toolkit launch’’, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 06th March 2015, 05th-06th March 2015
2014: European parliament, Brussels, Belgium; NWO-WOTRO Netherlands Research Institute Den Haag, The Netherlands., United Nations, World Institute of Development Research, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland.;