Experience

SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lecturer In Economics

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  I am currently teaching 4 courses at the master, diploma and undergraduate level. I am the convenor for those courses too. I undertake administrative/leaderships duties as allocated by the Head of the Department and I contribute to the management of the master and diploma programme. Research wise, I am collaborating in a ‘Anti-corruption evidence’ project, funded by the DFID, with a focus in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Tanzania.



International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Lecturer in Development Economics

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2016

  I lead a project on the economic effects of a standard for trade in 4 Sub-Saharan countries. I teach two courses for master and Ph.D. students; I supervise master students in preparing their dissertations and I mark their exams and their thesis. I have a research-intensive profile hence my teaching load is limited. I undertake administrative/leaderships duties as allocated by the Head of my research team and I contribute to the management of the master programme.



Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

• Economist

  • Nov 2013 - Dec 2014

  I was part of a team which is improving the FAOSTAT package, aimed at measuring the undernutrition in the world, in order to increase the exposure, visibility and accuracy of the available agricultural statistics. I review and implement the global Food Balance Sheet for a set of Latin America and African countries. I contribute to the development and use of major internal and external data applications including the incorporation of new data sources and development and enforcement of data quality standards. I analyse economic forecasts and position papers prepared by other institutions or interest groups on initiatives related issues and recommends responses to my group.I supervise and mentor junior analysts and I provide expert assessment on accuracy and relevance of data quality. I develop the forecasting model needed to support the strategic decision-making process and the overall program development. I also contribute to the preparation of major publications, policy briefs and reports to be disseminated to stakeholders, governments, statistical offices and international organizations.

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Nov 2010 - Nov 2013

  I was part of a project studying and evaluating the impact of several energy programs in two African countries -Burkina Faso and Rwanda- and one Asian country -Indonesia. The projects aimed at assessing the households and community impacts of energy related programs. My job was to participate in negotiations on issues with the Dutch government and stakeholders and to provide direct briefings to the Ministries of the Dutch Government and to provide them with the necessary information to enable the Ministry to make decisions about the future of the projects. I was in charge of preparing and drafting the household and communities’ questionnaires after having defined the scope, the objectives, the indicators, data requirements and the overall strategy of the study. I trained the data collectors and negotiated on project issues with the government representatives and main stakeholders in order to organize the baseline and the follow up surveys. Once the quality of the data has been checked, I conducted the cost-benefit analysis to implement the statistical analysis and the framework of the economic modelling projects and to test the robustness of assumptions (mainly using STATA and Excel). When the evaluation of the impacts has been addressed I wrote the reports, academic paper, briefing notes, executive recommendations and policy papers –depending on the type of the audience and the clients’ need- all required to support strategic decision making and policy and program development. Part of the job was to maintain current knowledge of related academic literature and familiarity with trends, programs, and policies, directly or indirectly related to the project outcome. I represented the University at related inter-governmental meeting to take strategic decisions on policy and programs, in conferences and in working groups’ consultations on matters related to the economic impacts of initiatives.

• Economist

  • Oct 2007 - Oct 2010

  I worked in two different divisions of the organization. In both of them I provided expert advices and assistance on economic modelling and on the use and interpretation of data for various economic instruments, statistical methods, and analytical approaches.In the economic division, I worked in a project aiming at measuring the composition and importance of the income generating activities for the rural households in many developing and transition economies in order to understand the labour market trends, households' activities, migration and poverty trends and to design more effective and better targeted rural and agricultural government policies and legislation. I monitored and analysed data to estimate trends and regularities important for the division programs, raising issues and providing recommendations to the division. Analysis and maintenance of large dataset was a daily task of my job. In the energy and natural resource division I provided expert input in support of the development of the biogas component of the ‘Bioenergy Feasibility Study Rapid Appraisal Tool’. The aim of the tool was to run a cost-benefit analysis related to the use of bio-digester technology. I identified data needs and sources, managed and designed and maintened databases for critical information. I furthermore worked in several publications dealing with measuring the impacts of the increase in the prices of key food staples, as a consequence of biofuel developments, on different household groups and on different indicators related to the labor market, nutrition, household wages and I helped to identify the vulnerable segments of the population. These publications have been used by local governments of Cambodia, Perú and Tanzania to derive ad-hoc policies to redistribute the losses across the population.