FIELDS OF COMPETENCES
Food and nutrition security,
Digital development,
impact evaluation,
Poverty and welfare.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Yaoundé II, Yaoundé, Cameroon. (Since February 2022)
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Yaoundé II, Yaoundé, Cameroon. (January 2020 - February 2022)
Tutorials in Microeconomics (L1), Demography (L1), Informatic (L1), Mathematics (L1) and Econometrics (L3)
2020: Macroeconomics (L1) in a Team of four (supervised by Pr Fouda Owoundi and Pr Ngoa Tabi Henri);
Digital Development Specialist (Consultant), The World Bank. Yaoundé, Cameroon (Since June 2023)
Task: Contributing to the design, preparation, and supervision of World Bank Group-financed digital development-related investment and policy reform programs
Consultant, Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA) & PROFOREST. Yaoundé, Cameroon (February - July 2023)
Senior Programme Officer-National Consultant, The World Food Programme. Yaoundé, Cameroon (July 2022 - April 2023)
Consultant, The World Bank. Yaoundé, Cameroon (December 2021 - May 2023)
Task: Agriculture Specialist under the Emergency Project to Combat the Food Crisis in Cameroon (P177782)
Consultant, The World Bank. Yaoundé, Cameroon (Since May 2020- May 2023)
Task: Digital Agriculture Specialist under the Programme for the Acceleration of the Digital Transformation of Cameroon (173240)
Consultant, International Food Policy Research Institute (January - September 2022)
Task: Contributing Author of the African Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) 2022
EIB-GDN Research Fellow in Applied Development Finance - 2018-2019, Global Development Network (GDN) and European Investment Bank (EIB) (November 2018 – October 2019)
Task: Conduct an impact evaluation of selected projects funded under the EIB’s Impact Financing Envelope (IFE) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries
Consultant, SNV / Netherlands Development Organisation Cameroon (July 2019 – September 2019)
Task: Carry out the baseline survey of the Cameroonian Golden Cocoa Project (CGCP) in ten cooperatives in two regions of Cameroon
Visiting Lecturer in “Production Economics” (L3) and “Applied Statistics” (L3), Higher Institute of Agriculture and Management of Obala, Obala, Cameroon. (January 2017 – Present)
Visiting Lecturer in “Microeconomics” (L2), Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroon. (November 2020 – Present)
Visiting Lecturer in “Agriculture and Gender” (Master), Sub Regional Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, Yaoundé, Cameroon. (February 2018 – February 2022)
PhD Research Intern, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki, Finland. (August 2015 – Oct 2015)
Visiting Lecturer in “Econometrics” (L3), “Mathematics for Economists” (L2), “Microeconomics” (L1 & L2), Cosendai Adventist University, Nanga Eboko, Cameroon. (November 2014 – February 2019)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
2020: Nominated and Laureate for the 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences, the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
2018 - 2019: EIB-GDN Research Fellowship in Applied Development Finance, Global Development Network (GDN) and European Investment Bank (EIB), 25 000 €
2015 - 2017: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), PMMA - Microeconomic analysis Research Grant (PMMA-12880), with GADOM D.-G., MBOUTCHOUANG KOUNTCHOU A., DJOSSOU GBETOTON N.A. 22 000 $
2012 - 2017: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) grant for doctoral studies – The Collaborative PhD Programme in Economics for Sub-Saharan Africa.
2014 - : Travel Grant to attend the international conferences from the Council for the Global Development Network (GDN), South African Department of Trade and Industry (dti), Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Statistics South Africa, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)…
08/2015 - 10/2015: PhD Internship Program Scholarship, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki - Finland.
2012: The 3rd Africa-wide Women and Young Professionals in Science Competitions organized by the Technical Centre for Agricultural (CTA) and the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). Semi-Finalist (with AMBAGNA J.J.)
2008-2010: Scholarship to pursue MPhil studies from the Inter-University Post-Graduate Program in Economics (NPTCI).
2007: Ministry of Higher Education grant for excellence.
2005-2006-2007: British American Tobacco (BAT-CEMAC) grant for excellence
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Yaoundé II-Cameroon, 2018
Master II in Economics, University of Yaoundé II-Cameroon, 2010