EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Governance and regional integration, Pan African University-Yaoundé and the University of Yaoundé II, Soa, Cameroon, 2020.

• Master’s degree in governance and regional integration, Option: Governance; Pan African University-Yaoundé, and the University of Yaoundé II, Soa, Cameroon, 2016.

• Master’s degree in applied economics, Option: Economic and Financial Engineering; University of Yaoundé II, Soa, Cameroon, 2015.

• Master’s degree in Banking and Finance, University of Rennes 1, France, 2015.

• Maîtrise in Macroeconomics and Development Management, Université Ouaga II (Current Thomas Sankara University), Saaba, Burkina Faso, 2012.

• Licence in Macroeconomics and Development Management, Université Ouaga II (Current Thomas Sankara University), Saaba, Burkina Faso, 2011.

• Diplôme d’Études Universitaires Générales (D.E.U.G.) in Economics and Management, Université Ouaga II (Current Thomas Sankara University), Saaba, Burkina Faso, 2010

• Baccalauréat série D, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Université de Ouagadougou (Current Joseph Ki-Zerbo University), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2008.

CAPACITY BUILDING/ CERTIFICATES

• Africa Summer School (AFSS 2025) of the Econometric Society Africa Region, at the École Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d’Économie Appliquée (ENSEA) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, May 23- 28, 2025: New Developments in Migration, Specialization, and Trade; Agricultural technology and structural transformation in Africa; Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments.

• Scientific communication using policy brief, Professor Abdoulaye Seck from Cheick Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD), Senegal, online, 2-3 April 2024.

Decent Work and Economic Growth: Achieving Sustainable Development Goals; The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), 2023.

• Training on African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) 2023, 4-15 September 2023, supported by The South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC), and Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS), Johannesburg. https://www.aporde.co.za/

• Training to set up projects and mobilize resources, organized by the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Documentation and Research (CEDRES), 20-21 June 2023, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

• Advanced Analytical Methods for Human Capital Development Modelling Technical Training workshop for Thematic Researchers organized by African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), 13 – 17 March 2023, Kampala, Uganda.

• Agent-based modeling (ABM) of educational and social network analysis (SNA) technical workshop organized by African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), 17-19 October 2022, Nairobi, Kenya.

• Occupational Safety and First-Aid, Thomas Sankara University, Saaba, Burkina Faso, December 2021.

• Development Economics Course for Sub-Saharan Africa, UKaid, G2LMLIC (Gender, Growth, and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries) and IZA Institute of Labour Economics, November 2021.

• Pedagogy of University Teaching, Ethics and Deontology of the Lecturer-Researcher and Appropriation of Administrative Procedures, Thomas Sankara University, Saaba, Burkina Faso, November 2021.

• Research Methodology in Economics and Writing a Research Proposal, West African Center for Training and Banking Studies and Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), 2021.

• Economic Growth: Theories, International Experiences, and Policies, African Development Bank (AfDB), 2020.  Main skills learned are savings, investments, and growth; Human capital and growth; public capital and growth; public expenditure allocation and growth; Growth, distribution, and poverty; Innovation and growth; Avoiding middle-income traps; labour markets, growth, and unemployment; Financial development and growth; Gender equality and growth.

• Training workshop on monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes funded by the Commission of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), National Economic Policy Committee (CNPE), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, December 2020.

• The Future of Work: Preparing for Disruption, World Bank, 2019. Main skills learned are factors behind the changing nature of work; new sets of skills required for future workforces; the World Bank human capital index, its components, and its methodology; social assistance programs and insurance schemes; human capital and labour policy measures available to governments.

• Catalyst, “Research Transparency in Social Sciences”, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2017.  BITSS was established to strengthen the quality of social science research and evidence used for policymaking, as well as to drive scientific norms and practices in ways that promote research transparency, reproducibility and openness more generally. As a catalyst at BITSS, we develop educational resources and deliver training to other researchers and practitioners in our own networks to achieve far-reaching change in the social change community. We have committed to changing norms by educating the next generation of social scientists.