Qualification
· Ph.D. Economics, Université de Montreal, Canada, 2010
· M.A. Statistics, ENSEA-Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2004
· B.A. Mathematics and Statistics, Université Nationale du Benin, 2000
Research interest: Econometrics, Statistics, Financial Econometrics
Australian Research Counsil Future Fellow 2027-2031
Career :
2022: Professor, School of Economics, The University of Adelaide (UoA)
2020-2021: Associate Professor, School of Economics, The University of Adelaide (UoA)
2014-2019: Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, UoA
November 2010-May 2014: Lecturer, University of Tasmania
May 2010-October 2010: Post-doctoral Fellow, McGill University, Canada
May 2009-April 2010: Assistant Professor, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada
Awards - 2024: Côte d’Ivoire Government leadership award
- 2023: Executive Dean’s Award for Excellence in International Engagement
- 2019: Executive Dean's Award for Excellence in Research Leardership, UoA
- 2018: Executive Dean's Award `Best Mid-Career Researcher for Excellence in Research, UoA
- 2015: Executive Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, UoA
- 2014: Executive Dean's Commendation for Excellence in Research, UoA
Grants ARC Future Fellowship (FT26, $1,327,030; 2027-2031): `Developing new econometic methodologies to optimise policy evaluation’
ARC Discovery Project (DP20, $240,000; 2020-2022): `Relevant model selection and inference under mixed identification strength’
ARC Discovery Project (DP21, $354,000; 2021-2023): `Identification Power and Instrument Strength for Causal Effects in Discrete Outcome Models’
Ratio Research Institute (Fellowship, $110,000; 2021): `Developing improved estimators for the stochastic frontier model’
2018 - Program Renewal Faculty Grant, Faculty of the Profession, UoA (AUD 20,034; Co-CI)
- McGill University visiting scholar grant, Canada (CAD 15,000)
- Laboratoire d'Economie d’Orléans visiting Fellowship grant, l'Universite d'Orléans, France (Euro 5,000)
2017 - Momentum Fund (AUD 5320), The University of Adelaide
2015 - Executive Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, UoA (AUD 2,000)
- Momentum Fund (AUD 6650), UoA
2013 - McGill University visiting scholar grant, Canada (CAD 20,000)
2011 - Faculty of Business research grant, University of Tasmania (AUD 10,118.35)