• Consultant for the African Development Bank Group, supporting peer-reviewing the 2025 Country Policy and Institutional Assessments (CPIA) between October and December 2025. I provided support for the Bank’s country teams through comments and recommendations for evaluating “Environmental policies and regulations” for the 54 African countries concerned.

• Assistant Professor of Development Economics, Department of Economics, Thomas Sankara University, Saaba, Burkina Faso. Permanent since June 2021.

• Teaching the following courses: Country Risk Management (Master); Democratisation in Africa (Master); Microeconomics foundations of macroeconomics (Master); English for Economists (Master); Microeconomics; Macroeconomics; Industrialization strategies. Since June 2021

• Supervising graduate students Master’s dissertations in Economics: 63. Since June 2021

• Researcher on Corruption, Gender and Sustainable Development, Norbert Zongo University, Koudougou, Burkina Faso, and Dublin City University, Ireland, January 2022 to September 2025 ( https://www.dcu.ie/arc/cogs) : We have carried out research and policy papers, policy briefs with the participation of relevant stakeholders on the interlinks between corruption, gender and sustainable development (education, health, crime, climate change, and entrepreneurship) in Africa. January 2022- September 2025.

• Lead consultant in a project on the distributional effects of fiscal policies in sub-Saharan Africa with the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), 2022. We did research for UNU-WIDER on “The effects of taxation on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa” which was published as a working paper by UNU-WIDER: Ouedraogo I, Dianda I, Ouedraogo PP, Ouedraogo RT, Konfe B. (2022). The effects of taxation on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa. WIDER Working Paper 2022/129. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2022/262-1; and a paper published at the Comparative Economic Studies: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41294-024-00235-z.

• Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) Catalyst. As a catalyst, we organized training workshops on Research Transparency in the Social Sciences in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, and South Africa for the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and BITSS, which are based at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, from 2017 to the present. Main activities: provide research transparency training course every year; identify appropriate delivery mechanisms to integrate research transparency training, including integration into existing curricula, seminars, workshops or training camps; Lead advocacy efforts that will affect policy changes at the level of university departments or senates (e.g., among university governing bodies) by writing blogs, articles on open education, meetings with administrators and other decision-makers to discuss and develop additions and/or revisions to the curriculum; develop and delivers training in the form of workshops, conferences in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, and South Africa (https://www.bitss.org/events/catalyst-training-university-of-ouaga-ii/) and South Africa.

Ø Ouedraogo, I. (2024, July 30). BITSS Catalyst Training on Advancing Transparent, Reproducible, and Ethical Research in Burkina Faso. Retrieved from https://osf.io/2czdh  

Ø Ouedraogo, I., & Koulibaly, A. (2022, June 1). Improving Research Transparency, Reproducibility, and Open Science Research in Burkina Faso. Retrieved from https://osf.io/7erfg 

Ø Ndizera, V., & Ouedraogo, I. (2018, October 8). BITSS catalyst Training on Transparency and Reproducibility in Social sciences Research at PAUGHSS (in Cameroon). Retrieved from https://osf.io/v29za 

• Research Assistant, Department of Economic Orientation, Finance and Economics (DEOFE) of the Burkina Faso Economic and Social Council, P.O. Box 6162, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. https://www.ces.gov.bf/, 2016. Main activities: coordinate the generation of analytical works to inform operational policy on governance and human development policies; support the organization and servicing of meetings, workshops, conferences; report on developments in the work programme; conduct desk research, including econometric analysis, systematic reviews of evidence on governance and human development; contribute to the drafting of project documents on governance and human development; writing a technical report on income inequality in Burkina Faso.

• Research Intern, Department of Regional Integration, Ministry of Economy Planning and Regional Development, P.O. Box 660, Yaoundé, Cameroon. https://www.minepat.gov.cm/. I wrote a report on Governance of institutions for economic integration in Central Africa: the case of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), 2015. Main activities: collect, evaluate, interpret and analyse data relating to regional economic integration in Central Africa; draft of reports and support for activities relating to economic integration in Central Africa; evaluate the environmental and social impacts of development projects in Douala and Bamenda; contribute to technical and policy reports, briefing notes and support for the organization and servicing of expert groups, meetings, workshops and seminars with the African Development Bank and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Cameroon;  draft of a technical report on "The governance of economic integration institutions in Central Africa: the case of CEMAC".